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
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.