Definition of Upheave. Meaning of Upheave. Synonyms of Upheave

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Definition of Upheave

Upheave
Upheave Up*heave", v. t. To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise. --Milton.

Meaning of Upheave from wikipedia

- examples the growth of the Nile delta since the time of Homer, and "the upheaving of one of the Aeolian islands, previous to a volcanic eruption."' Meteorologica...
- economic prosperity that they had promised, leading to citizen motivation to upheave the government. Economic distress mirrored across most regimes had declined...
- during part of the continuing Italian Wars known as the Four Years' War upheaved the political ground of Europe. He was actually taken prisoner: Cesare...
- the industrialisation began in the 19th century, the social order was upheaved and with it the focus of the intelligentsia and the educated changed as...
- managed to rediscover the urn containing his father's ashes that had been upheaved by the flood and he therefore shifted the urn to Pakkhoke Randhawa for...
- Which m**** and silent rested at my feet. A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved All over this still ocean, and beyond, Far, far beyond, the vapours shot...
- there were any; only swellings-up of the earth here and there, like the upheavings of the water that one sees at whiles going on amidst the eddies of a swift...
- Sanderson encountered reports of a species of fungi which "weigh a ton, and upheave large trees". The earliest report appears to have been in the writings...
- Continent, 1820 1822 Fort Fuentes (XXIII) 1821–1822 "Dread hour! when, upheaved by war's sulphurous blast," Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820...
- the employment on sugarcane farms and deer hunting. Similarly, the Dutch upheaved the traditional agricultural practices in favor of more modern systems...