Definition of Upheaval

Noun: upheaval  Ãºp'hee-vul

1. A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
   "the industrial revolution was a period of great upheaval";
   - turbulence, Sturm und Drang
    
2. A violent disturbance
   "the upheavals of the stock market";
   - convulsion, turmoil
    
3. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
   - uplift, upthrow, upthrust
    
4. Disturbance usually in protest
   - agitation, excitement, turmoil, hullabaloo, hullaballoo

See also:
upheaps
upheavals

Anagrams containing the word upheaval

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