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View definitions for upheaved

upheaved

adjective as in elevated

adjective as in heightened

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Example Sentences

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

A little later, he sees that the disk had disappeared and “in its place was a billow of blood, for so it looked, a vast upheaved billow of glowing blood surging on the horizon.”

The Ice was not so upheaved and tormented as in the Fire-Hills region, but it was rotten.

Like a miniature mountain range, large reddish weals upheaved across the white flesh of her wrists.

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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