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upheaved

upheaved is the simple past and past participle of upheave.

Meaning of upheave

Verb

upheave (third-person singular simple present upheaves, present participle upheaving, simple past upheaved or uphove, past participle upheaved or uphove or uphoven)

  1. (transitive) To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
  2. (transitive) To lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward.
    • Considering, further, the absence of most of the New Guinea mammals from the Moluccas, we are led to the conclusion that these islands are not fragments which have been separated from New Guinea, but form a distinct insular region, which has been upheaved independently at a rather remote epoch, and...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 146
  3. (intransitive) To be lifted up; rise.

Questions about upheaved

What is upheaved the simple past and past participle of?
Upheaved is the simple past and past participle of upheave.

Words near upheaved in the dictionary

  1. upheavalism
  2. upheavalist
  3. upheavalists
  4. upheavals
  5. upheave
  6. upheaved
  7. upheavement
  8. upheavements
  9. upheaver
  10. upheavers
  11. upheaves

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