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Webster 1913 Edition


Upheave

Up-heave′

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Verb.
T.
To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Upheave

UPHE'AVE

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Verb.
T.
To heave or lift up.

Definition 2024


upheave

upheave

English

Verb

upheave (third-person singular simple present upheaves, present participle upheaving, simple past upheaved or uphove, past participle upheaved or uphoven)

  1. (transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
  2. (transitive) To lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward.
  3. (intransitive) To be lifted up; rise.

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