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UPHEAVE (uphove)

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Irregular inflected form: uphove  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does upheave mean? 

UPHEAVE (verb)
  The verb UPHEAVE has 1 sense:

1. lift forcefully from beneathplay

  Familiarity information: UPHEAVE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UPHEAVE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lift forcefully from beneath

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "upheave" is one way to...):

heave; heave up; heft; heft up (lift or elevate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

upheaval ((geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building))


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