Upheaving [verb]

Definition of Upheaving:

move upwards; ascend

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Sentence/Example of Upheaving:

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

Then during the night they upheave their backs to relieve themselves of the pressure, and thus shake the walling to a fall.

Here the word must have been upheave, the rimes being leave, cleave, bereave.

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.

Every upheave seemed to be followed by a downward settling plunge, as though the ship were already on her way to the bottom.