upheave

American  

[uhp-heev] / ʌpˈhiv /

verb (used with object)

upheaved, uphove, upheaving

1. to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.

2. to force or throw up violently or with much power, as an erupting volcano.

3. to cause a major disturbance or disorder in.

   The revolution upheaved the government, causing its leaders to flee the country.

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verb (used without object)

upheaved, uphove, upheaving

1. to rise upward, especially extensively or powerfully.

upheave British  

/ ʌpˈhiːv /

verb

1. to heave or rise upwards

2. geology to thrust (land) upwards or (of land) to be thrust upwards

3. (tr) to disturb violently; throw into disorder

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Other Word Forms

• upheaver noun

Etymology

Origin of upheave

First recorded in 1250–1300, upheave is from the Middle English word upheven. See up-, heave

Example Sentences

Every day of my life I will upheave my soul from its inmost fastenings, and not suffer a blur to settle upon it.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

The whole ocean about the island seemed to upheave.

From Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island by Appleton, Victor [pseud.]

There was a quick gliding movement, an upheave and a bump—and then—crash came one of the mighty rollers as before.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Mitford, Bertram

It is like the volcanic fires that flame in the depths of the earth; it will yet upheave the ocean and the land, and flame up to heaven.

From A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Cooke, John Esten

We live on a volcanic mass, which at any moment may upheave and blow us to glory without the benefit of the clergy, the most of whom are in the army of Dixie.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various

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