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upheave


verb (used with object), up·heaved or up·hove, up·heav·ing.

  1. to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
  2. to force or throw up violently or with much power, as an erupting volcano.
  3. 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.

  1. to rise upward, especially extensively or powerfully.

verb -heaves, -heaving, -heaved or -hove

  1. to heave or rise upwards
  2. geology to thrust (land) upwards or (of land) to be thrust upwards
  3. (tr) to disturb violently; throw into disorder
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