upshoved

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upshoved (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Pushed upward.
    • 1882, James Anthony Froude, Thomas Carlyle (A History of the First Forty Years of his Life:
      [] and the Doctor goes up to the celestial globe, studying the fixed stars through an upshoved window, []
    • 1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195:
      But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, []
    • 2016, Darin Bradley, Totem:
      [] the tidal pool between the great, upshoved rims of Aer's excavated valley.