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What does upheave mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word upheave? Here's what it means.

Verb
  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.
  3. (intransitive) To be lifted up; rise.
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A vigorous stirring is bound to upheave what is searched for, so in due course the Captain dug up a snaffle-bit.
On the other hand, a small tree can completely upheave a sidewalk causing a major pedestrian hazard.
Well, it would be if I could upheave a wild hog.
Here the word must have been upheave, the rimes being leave, cleave, bereave.
It sometimes seems as though Jones is torn between wanting to preserve the classic and wanting to upheave it.
So you'd be prepared to upheave your husband and three children from home in London?

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