upheave

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To heave or lift up; raise up or aloft. transitive
  2. To lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward. transitive
    — Considering, further, the absence of most of the New Guinea mammals from the Moluccas, we are led to the conclusion that these islands are not fragments which have been separated from New Guinea, but form a distinct insular region, which has been upheaved independently at a rather remote epoch, and during all the mutations it has undergone has been constantly receiving immigrants from that great and productive island.
  3. To be lifted up; rise. intransitive

词形变化

upheaves present,singular,third-person upheaving participle,present upheaved past uphove past upheaved participle,past uphove participle,past uphoven participle,past

词汇关系

衍生词
upheaval upheaving

词源

From Middle English upheven, from Old English ūpāhebban (“to lift up, raise up, exalt, rise in the air, fly”), equivalent to up- + heave. Cognate with Dutch opheffen (“to lift, raise”), German aufheben (“to lift, raise, cancel, repeal”).
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