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# How to pronounce "upheaving" in English

## Pronunciation & Phonetics

- **IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)**: `/ʌfɪːvɪng/`
- **Syllable Breakdown**: **u·phea·ving**
- **Parts of Speech**: verb, noun
- **VERB**: present participle and gerund of upheave
- **NOUN**: upheaval
  - *Example*: "With great social, political, and religious upheavings, it is trying to escape from the thraldom of the dark ages."

## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (4 Video Clips)

Listen to native speakers pronounce "upheaving" in real conversation:

### Example 1
> "vectors as a result of that vegetation is changing the permafrost is thawing upheaving the Earth and there's a whole uh population whose way of life that goes back for Millennia is gone and so what do you do with the indigenous population and how does all that fit together so uh I wanted to find out about that"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 11:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja96BKA3pp8&t=672s)

### Example 2
> "Island a medra poric upheaving planted with magnificent coconut trees which had"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 50:51](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28hnRkkJB3g&t=3051s)

### Example 3
> "rolled down before the wind the strange upheaving lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows of so many sails made the buoyant hovering"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 41:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqbbS8lt_c&t=2492s)

### Example 4
> "the sea of black and threatening waters, and of destructive upheaving of wave"
- **Jump to Video Timestamp**: [Watch on YouTube at 411:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd8vr87k6Fc&t=24688s)


## Related Words & Synonyms

- **Nearby Vocabulary**: [upheaping](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upheaping), [upbearing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upbearing), [upgearing](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/upgearing), [uphand](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/uphand), [uphanded](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/uphanded), [uphanding](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/uphanding), [uphands](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/uphands), [uphang](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/uphang)

## Frequently Asked Questions

### How do you pronounce "upheaving" correctly?
"upheaving" is pronounced `/ʌfɪːvɪng/`. Syllable breakdown: **u·phea·ving**.

### What does "upheaving" mean in context?
present participle and gerund of upheave

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