Upheaved

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. An object that has been forcefully elevated or moved upward
2. Moved upward violently or with great effort
3. Raised or elevated suddenly by strong force

Etymology: "Upheaved" is the past tense and past participle of "upheave", which traces back to Old English "ūpāhebban", meaning to lift up, raise up, exalt, or rise in the air. That Old English verb combined "up" with "hebban", the ancestor of our word "heave", so the core idea was always physical lifting. Its cousins in Dutch and German keep the same sense of raising: Dutch "opheffen" means to lift or raise, and German "aufheben" means to lift, though it also gained the more abstract senses of cancelling or repealing. The word passed into Middle English as "upheven" and kept its sense of raising for centuries. The modern meaning of forcing something upward suddenly, especially with the ground or the earth's crust, is a narrower sense that grew out of that older physical lifting.

Synonyms: lifted, elevated, raised, hoisted, upturned

Antonyms: lowered, dropped, decreased, descended, reduced