Verb (used with object) : The revolution upheaved the government, causing its leaders to flee the country. From Dictionary.com.
The whole ocean about the island seemed to upheave. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Wireless Message: or, the castaways of Earthquake island] Reference
And your hesitant heart flutters, not wanting to upheave. From Wordnik.com. [Tamsin Rothschild: My Life and Poetry] Reference
I bought a pc a couple of years back that had “upheave to USB” on the door covering the USB ports. —. From Wordnik.com. [Warning: Racially Offensive Furniture - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
And trafficking of the world, upheave existing institutions, and overturn all the social relations of life. From Wordnik.com. [Prager on the 2010 election] Reference
It shows there canât be any snow in Rome because otherwise it would buckle and upheave the street, it shows this, it shows that. From Wordnik.com. [Patrick Rothfuss: „There will be sex“ « Memesis Virtualis] Reference
We live on a volcanic mass, which at any moment may upheave and blow us to glory without the benefit of the clergy, the most of whom are in the army of Dixie. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference
July 30, 2003 @ 4: 41 pm rock me, red i've decided i'm moving to iraq where they make fun of thin women. i don't care if their country's in an upheave. at least i'd be pretty. From Wordnik.com. [pyxopotamus Diary Entry] Reference
In this case, when I have really needed to mobilize myself in times of challenge or fear, I have found myself repeating "Your hesitant heart flutters, not wanting to upheave.". From Wordnik.com. [Tamsin Rothschild: My Life and Poetry] Reference
Then let the twisten ropes upheave the whitest of canvas, 235. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
But the fourth dawn mighty mountains by the inner sea upheave. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference
And give it only the fulcrum of Plymouth Rock an idea will upheave the continent. From Wordnik.com. [The American Union Speaker] Reference
Conservatives said the divorce measures proposed would upheave the whole social fabric. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I] Reference
It is I who must find this treasure, this fulcrum to the lever which is going to upheave France. From Wordnik.com. [A Splendid Hazard] Reference
Kids will definitely upheave elements of your life, but there will be so many new sources of satisfaction and joy. From Wordnik.com. [Ask MetaFilter] Reference
Monadnock, which, at no great distance from where I was, begins to upheave its huge dark mass above the surrounding country. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America] Reference
The arrangement of composed type, or the appearance of printed matter. upheave v. To raise or lift with effort. tyrannical adj. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Our banner staff is at last so firmly planted that no convulsion which did not split the earth could upheave it from its place. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of W. W. Holden,] Reference
The earth does not upheave itself from beneath the sea and add new land to that already above water in response to our need for it. From Wordnik.com. [The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity] Reference
It is like the volcanic fires that flame in the depths of the earth; it will yet upheave the ocean and the land, and flame up to heaven. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of Gen Robert E Lee]
The frozen crust was seen to upheave; and, the next moment, the head of the fox, and afterwards his whole body, appeared above the surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference
The frozen crust was seen to upheave: and, the next moment, the head of the fox, and afterwards his whole body, appeared above the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Adventure Tales] Reference
They would upheave the whole system to address the 15 percent. ". From Wordnik.com. [News Review - Top Stories] Reference
Slowly now the cords upheave her!. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference
To pile in ruins and upheave amain. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
At the same time upheave and whelm. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4] Reference
Too high thou dost thyself upheave. From Wordnik.com. [The Pearl] Reference
And with these arms upheave the land. From Wordnik.com. [Ramayana. English] Reference
Bid me upheave this rocky battlement. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. I. I. Norman Maurice, a Tragedy; II. Atalantis, a Tale of the Sea; III. Tales and Traditions of the South; IV. The City of the Silent] Reference
Making the cauldrons of the clouds upheave. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1913-15] Reference
Has might, even dead, half sighing to upheave. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Her slender form from out the ground upheave. From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference
The fierce throes of battle upheave a continent. From Wordnik.com. [Gala-days] Reference
The streets upheave, and sink again, like waves. From Wordnik.com. [Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two] Reference
My only concern is water and upheave. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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