Associations to the word «Upheaval»
Noun
- Coup
- Masse
- Worldview
- Revolutionary
- Stability
- Turbulence
- Lava
- Conflict
- Devastation
- Depression
- Colonization
- Cen
- Disaster
- Emancipation
- Decade
- Disruption
- Haiti
- Ethnic
- Purge
- War
- Renewal
- Struggle
- Peasant
- Expulsion
- Protestant
- Invasion
- Meteor
- Humankind
- Vietnam
- Michelangelo
- Ideology
- Dictatorship
- Po
- Modernity
- Violence
- Wake
- Regime
- Fluctuation
- Riot
- Diaspora
- Homeland
- Persecution
- Coloni
- Schism
- Nineteenth
- Nobility
- Protestantism
- Era
- Europe
- Independence
- Algeria
- Intrigue
- Reform
- Movement
- Change
- Elite
- Warfare
- Century
- Destruction
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
UPHEAVAL, noun. The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
UPHEAVAL, noun. A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.
Dictionary definition
UPHEAVAL, noun. A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence".
UPHEAVAL, noun. A violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market".
UPHEAVAL, noun. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building).
UPHEAVAL, noun. Disturbance usually in protest.
Wise words
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