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UPHEAVE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: uphove   

 I. (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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