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upheave

/uhp-heev/US // ʌpˈhiv //UK // (ʌpˈhiːv) //

耸耸肩,耸人听闻,耸立,耸动

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v.有主动词 verb
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    up·heaved or up·hove, up·heav·ing.

    • : to heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
    • : to force or throw up violently or with much power, as an erupting volcano.
    • : to cause a major disturbance or disorder in: The revolution upheaved the government, causing its leaders to flee the country.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    up·heaved or up·hove, up·heav·ing.

    • : to rise upward, especially extensively or powerfully.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inlift
Forms: upheaved
as inraise
Forms: upheaved
Antonyms
as injack
Forms: upheaved

Examples

  • A vigorous stirring is bound to upheave what is searched for, so in due course the Captain dug up a snaffle-bit.

  • In a mighty effort to upheave the foundations of despotism, the people grew mad.

  • The Archimedian lever found a resting-place in his brain, and sundry of his thoughts seem not inapt to upheave the world.

  • Yes; they'll have the all-firedest upheave there, before long, that ever tore a hole in the bottom of the sea.

  • Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky.