upheave

Meaning

Verb

• To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
• To lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward.
• To be lifted up; rise.

Origin

• From Middle English upheven, from Old English ūphebban, ūpāhebban, equivalent to up- + heave. Cognate with Dutch opheffen ("to lift, raise"), German aufheben ("to lift, raise, cancel, repeal").