Upheaving [verb]
Definition of Upheaving:
move upwards; ascend
Synonyms of Upheaving:
● Raise
● Rise
● Pick up
● Hoist
● Climb
● Boost
● Disappear
● Soar
● Uphold
● Hike
● Mount
● Dissipate
● Up
● Erect
● Elevate
● Upraise
● Arise
● Aspire
● Uplift
● Vanish
● Rear
● Disperse
● Bring up
● Build up
● Come up
● Draw up
● Put up
● Take up
● Uprear
● Heft
● Goose
● Bear aloft
● Buoy up
● Hike up
● Jack up
● Jump up
● Move up
● Raise high
Opposite/Antonyms of Upheaving:
● Depress
● Receive
● Give
● Set down
● Appear
● Gather
● Collect
● Fall
● Descend
● Lower
● Drop
● Weaken
● Dispirit
● Demote
● Impose
● Lessen
● Decrease
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.