Upheave
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Upheave is a verb meaning (transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
Meaning
(transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward.
- (intransitive) To be lifted up; rise.
Example Sentences
Considering, further, the absence of most of the New Guinea mammals from the Moluccas, we are led to the conclusion that these islands are not fragments which have been separated from New Guinea, but form a distinct insular region, which has been upheaved independently at a rather remote epoch, and during all the mutations it has undergone has been constantly receiving immigrants from that great and productive island.
Word Forms
- upheaves
- upheaving
- upheaved
- uphove
- uphoven
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include heave, uphoist, upraise, elate, upbear, hance.
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