upheave

present singular third person upheaves · participle present upheaving · past upheaved · past uphove · participle past upheaved · participle past uphove · participle past uphoven

1. transitiveTo heave or lift up; raise up or aloft.
2. transitiveTo lift or thrust something upward forcefully, or be similarly lifted or thrust upward.

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   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.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 146

3. intransitiveTo be lifted up; rise.