Associations to the word «Upheaval»
Noun
- Grayson
- Commemoration
- Armistice
- Libya
- Democracy
- Eruption
- Dynasty
- Epidemic
- Fol
- Cretaceous
- Modernization
- Liberation
- Downfall
- Alps
- Flood
- Kashmir
- Socialism
- Bourgeois
- Mediterranean
- Empire
- Earth
- Politics
- Russia
- Communist
- Balkans
- Transition
- Prominence
- Millennium
- Protest
- Yugoslavia
- Transformation
- Reconstruction
- Exile
- Puritan
- Beaumont
- Agitation
- Immigration
- Granite
- Reign
- Eighty
- Cambodia
- Cal
- Time
- Enlightenment
- Influx
- Sandstone
- Faction
- Dome
- Uncertainty
- Crater
- Coming
- Arrival
- Rise
- Lenin
- Shift
- Consequence
- Assassination
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.
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