verb (used with object)
1.
to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
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)
4.
to rise upward, especially extensively or powerfully.
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| —vb , -heaves, -heaving, -heaved, -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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