upheave
Americanverb (used with object)
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to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
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to force or throw up violently or with much power, as an erupting volcano.
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to cause a major disturbance or disorder in.
The revolution upheaved the government, causing its leaders to flee the country.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to heave or rise upwards
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geology to thrust (land) upwards or (of land) to be thrust upwards
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(tr) to disturb violently; throw into disorder
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Etymology
Origin of upheave
First recorded in 1250–1300, upheave is from the Middle English word upheven. See up-, heave
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The mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.
From The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science by John William Dawson
The Archimedian lever found a resting-place in his brain, and sundry of his thoughts seem not inapt to upheave the world.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various
The frozen crust was seen to upheave; and, the next moment, the head of the fox, and afterwards his whole body, appeared above the surface.
From The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North by William Harvey
To my unspeakable and heartfelt relief we were now on the upheave of the curling combers, and those horrible fins were still behind.
From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford
The earth does not upheave itself from beneath the sea and add new land to that already above water in response to our need for it.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
“If I had known, I’d have had a heart attack,” he said also, a reference to a point when things went especially upheaved.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022
The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown upheaved many things in the U.S., including the career of DeRay Mckesson, who quit his job as an educator to become a full-time activist.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2018
Her well-to-do lifestyle is upheaved by news of her husband leaving her for another woman.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2017
But the newly upheaved anagram did not articulate intelligently.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Ice was not so upheaved and tormented as in the Fire-Hills region, but it was rotten.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
But as other states have led the way in upheaving their systems, Washington has been slow to follow suit.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022
The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving love that had brought me there.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018
And this sudden upheaving was at first without danger to the body politic.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
And now, once more, is there not an upheaving of humanity from beneath? and over society as it is, does not once more loom the shadow of a coming change?
From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
There came a rush—an upheaving of the waters, which flung her high into the darkness—a blow that made her little bark quake in all its timbers—a plunge—a black rush of waters.
From Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens
It lay, a black mass, and whether it was a vast huddle of weeds, or a great whale killed by the earthquake, or solid land uphove by the volcanic rupture, was not conjecturable.
From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various
Then with the sobbing grief he strove, For he saw his name thereon; And the heart within his breast uphove As the pen’s tale now he won.
From Poems By the Way by William Morris
"An island uphove by an earthquake," said I. "Great thunder!" he cried.
From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various
Vast showers of splinters of ice fell as if from the sky, and rained like arrows through the smoke, but if there were any great blocks uphove they did not touch the ship.
From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
Then with the sobbing grief he strove, For he saw his name thereon; And the heart within his breast uphove As the pen's tale now he won.
From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
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