单词 | upheaving |
释义 | > as lemmasupˈheaving upˈheaving n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > change social revolution1795 upheaving1821 social change1822 world revolution1832 upheaval1850 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] leapc1000 lope14.. revolution?a1439 reverse?1492 metamorphosis1548 transformation1581 earthquake1592 upside down1593 metamorphose1608 sea-changea1616 peritropea1656 transilience1657 transiliency1661 saltus1665 catastrophe1696 peristrophe1716 transiliency1769 upheaving1821 upset1822 saltation1844 shake1847 upheaval1850 cataclysm1861 shake-out1939 virage1989 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [adjective] > moving upwards in other ways upspringingc1400 upflinging1566 upsteaming1582 spearing1753 uprushing1801 upheaving1821 upward-striving1844 upward-shooting1857 upshooting1869 upward-rushing1871 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > tectonization or diastrophism > [noun] > upheaval ridging1499 upheaving1821 upthrow1833 upheaval1838 upheavement1841 uplifting1845 upthrust1846 uplift1853 upraisal1865 bradyseism1896 upwarping1954 updoming1964 the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [adjective] revolutional1796 revolutionizing1797 catastrophic1837 cataclysmic1851 cataclysmal1861 catastrophical1876 upheaving1881 1821 Atherstone Poems 72 Ocean monsters, from their beds..Torn by th' upheaving billows to the day. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 231 Great upheavings of the coast. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxii. 282 I mounted the upheaving ice, and rode upon the fragments. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine i. 23 The traces of igneous action on the granite rocks belong to their first upheaving. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xiii. 285 The Conquest was over, but the upheavings of the conquered population still continued. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xli. 226 All over the world there seemed to be an unheaving of old systems. 1881 W. Stephens Chichester 158 [They] could not foresee what mighty and upheaving changes were at hand. < as lemmas |
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