Synonyms of the word upthrow


UPTHROWASCENSION - ASCENT - RISE - RISING - UPHEAVAL - UPLIFT - UPTHRUST

upthrow

  • v. (archaic, poetic) To throw or cast upwards.
  • v. (geology, transitive) To throw up (a mass of material) from below, causing a fault.
  • v. (geology, intransitive, of a mass of material) To be thrown up from below, causing a fault.
  • n. (geology) A fault in which a mass of material has been thrown up from below.

ascension

  • n. The act of ascending; an ascent.
  • n. That which rises, as from distillation.

ascent

  • n. The act of ascending; a motion upwards.
  • n. The way or means by which one ascends.
  • n. An eminence, hill, or high place.
  • n. The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising…
  • n. (typography) The ascender height in a typeface.
  • n. An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy.

rise

  • v. (intransitive) To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground.
  • v. (intransitive) To increase in value or standing.
  • v. To begin; to develop.
  • v. (transitive) To go up; to ascend; to climb.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to go up or ascend.
  • v. (obsolete) To retire; to give up a siege.
  • v. To come; to offer itself.
  • v. (printing, dated) To be lifted, or capable of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any…
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
  • n. The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
  • n. (chiefly Britain) An increase (in a quantity, price, etc).
  • n. The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
  • n. (Britain, Ireland, Australia) An increase in someone's pay rate; a raise (US).
  • n. (Sussex) A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
  • n. An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it;…
  • n. (informal) An angry reaction.
  • n. Alternative form of rice (“twig”).

rising

  • v. present participle of rise.
  • n. Rebellion.
  • n. The act of something that rises.
  • n. (US, dated) A dough and yeast mixture which is allowed to ferment.
  • adj. Going up.
  • prep. (US, slang, dated) More than; exceeding; upwards of.

upheaval

  • n. The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
  • n. A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.

uplift

  • v. To raise something or someone to a higher physical, social, moral, intellectual, spiritual or emotional…
  • v. (aviation, travel) to be accepted for carriage on a flight.
  • n. The act or result of being uplifted.
  • n. (geology) A tectonic upheaval, especially one that takes place in the process of mountain building.
  • n. (colloquial) A brassiere that raises the breasts.

upthrust

  • n. An upward thrust.
  • n. (nautical) Buoyancy.
  • n. (geology) An upward movement of part of the Earth's crust.
  • v. (transitive) To thrust something upwards.
  • v. (intransitive) To be thrust upwards.

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