upheave

A queen in heaven while yet so young, Too high thou dost thyself upheave.

From The Pearl by Jewett, Sophie

It is like the volcanic fires that flame in the depths of the earth; it will yet upheave the ocean and the land, and flame up to heaven.

From A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by Cooke, John Esten

It is I who must find this treasure, this fulcrum to the lever which is going to upheave France.

From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold

These evils are sot too firm on American soil, it will take a greater power than Miss Meechim’s tracts to upheave ’em.

From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Holley, Marietta

Miles—for though that speck in the sky into which they upheave their mighty altitudes, be doubtless an eagle, we cannot hear its cry.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

“If I had known, I’d have had a heart attack,” he said also, a reference to a point when things went especially upheaved.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2022

The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown upheaved many things in the U.S., including the career of DeRay Mckesson, who quit his job as an educator to become a full-time activist.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2018

Her well-to-do lifestyle is upheaved by news of her husband leaving her for another woman.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2017

He traces the origin of petroleum to volcanic disturbances which in early geological times upheaved the water and land surface of the earth and killed immense quantities of fish.

From Time Magazine Archive

We seem to be living through the biologic revolution, so far anyway, without being upheaved or even much disturbed by it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

But as other states have led the way in upheaving their systems, Washington has been slow to follow suit.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2022

The first time I came to Hammars, I was barely a year old and knew nothing about the great and upheaving love that had brought me there.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 10, 2018

The upheaving force does not appear to have acted at one point, but along a line traversing the Val del Bove.

From Etna A History of the Mountain and of its Eruptions by Rodwell, G. F.

The nervousness which resulted from hard work and a long struggle for existence had not only given him palsy, but had left him with an upheaving diaphragm.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

Once more the hundreds of centuries of erosion came, to be followed by the upheaving of the newer mountains of the Fourth or Quaternary Age.

From The Boy With the U.S. Miners by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis

Vast showers of splinters of ice fell as if from the sky, and rained like arrows through the smoke, but if there were any great blocks uphove they did not touch the ship.

From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)

Then with the sobbing grief he strove, For he saw his name thereon; And the heart within his breast uphove As the pen's tale now he won.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

"An island uphove by an earthquake," said I. "Great thunder!" he cried.

From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various

It lay, a black mass, and whether it was a vast huddle of weeds, or a great whale killed by the earthquake, or solid land uphove by the volcanic rupture, was not conjecturable.

From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various

The fire, communicating with a powder magazine, produced an explosion which uphove the buildings like an earthquake, and prostrated more than a third of a mile of the city walls.

From The Empire of Russia by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)