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.