upheave

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of UPHEAVE

to lift with effort <exactly how the builders of the pyramids at Giza upheaved such massive blocks of stone remains a mystery>

Synonyms boost, heft, hoist, jack (up), upheave

Related Words elevate, hike, pick up, raise, rear, up, uplift, upraise, uprear

Near Antonyms depress, drop, lower; sink, submerge, submerse

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