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upshoved

upshoved adjective: pushed upward.

Adjective

upshoved (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Pushed upward.
    • […] and the Doctor goes up to the celestial globe, studying the fixed stars through an upshoved window, […]1882, James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle (A History of the First Forty Years of his Life
    • But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195

Questions about upshoved

What does upshoved mean?
Upshoved means pushed upward.
What part of speech is upshoved?
Upshoved is an adjective.

Words near upshoved in the dictionary

  1. upshoots
  2. upshore
  3. upshorts
  4. upshot
  5. upshots
  6. upshoved
  7. Upshur
  8. Upshur County
  9. upshut
  10. upshuts
  11. upshutting

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