verb (used with object), up·heaved or up·hove, up·heav·ing.
- to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
- to force or throw up violently or with much power, as an erupting volcano.
- to cause a major disturbance or disorder in: The revolution upheaved the government, causing its leaders to flee the country.
verb (used without object), up·heaved or up·hove, up·heav·ing.
- to rise upward, especially extensively or powerfully.
verb -heaves, -heaving, -heaved or -hove
- to heave or rise upwards
- geology to thrust (land) upwards or (of land) to be thrust upwards
- (tr) to disturb violently; throw into disorder