Unscramble

u 1 p 3 h 4 e 1 a 1 v 4 e 1

7 letters · 15 points in Scrabble

Meaning

verb lift forcefully from beneath

originFrom Middle English upheven, from Old English ūpāhebban (“to lift up, raise up, exalt, rise in the air, fly”), equivalent to up- + heave. Cognate with Dutch opheffen (“to lift, raise”), German aufheben (“to lift, raise, cancel, repeal”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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