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upheave

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up·heave  (p-hv)
v. up·heaved, up·heav·ing, up·heaves
v.tr.
To lift forcefully from beneath; heave upward.
v.intr.
To be lifted or thrust upward.
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Verb1.upheaveupheave - lift forcefully from beneath
heave up, heft, heft up, heave - lift or elevate
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Others will upheave the blacksmith's hammer, or drive the plane over the carpenter's bench, or take the lapstone and the awl and learn the trade of shoemaking.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
In the thought of to-morrow there is a power to upheave all thy creed, all the creeds, all the literatures of the nations, and marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has yet depicted.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
How cheap even the liberty then seems; how mean to study, when an emotion communicates to the intellect the power to sap and upheave nature; how great the perspective
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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