Upheave
verb
verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft. transitive
- 2 lift forcefully from beneath wordnet
- 3 To lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward. transitive
- 4 To be lifted up; rise. intransitive
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From Middle English upheven, from Old English ūpāhebban (“to lift up, raise up, exalt, rise in the air, fly”), equivalent to up- + heave. Cognate with Dutch opheffen (“to lift, raise”), German aufheben (“to lift, raise, cancel, repeal”).