upheave verb. [ʌp'hi:v] ME.
[from UP- + HEAVE verb.]
1. verb trans. Orig., exalt. Later, heave or lift up (something), esp. forcibly. ME.
■ Browning While Hebron upheaves The dawn..on his shoulder.
■ E. Bowen Since the twentieth century opened, no Western European capital had been..upheaved by internal strife.

2. verb intrans. Rise up; be lifted up. M17.
Scribner's Magazine Along the west it upheaves into the fine Valles range.

■ upheavement noun the action or process of upheaving; the fact of being upheaved M19.

■ upheaver noun L16.

■ upheaving verbal noun the action of the verb; an instance of this: M19.

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