upheaval

1 a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" [syn: turbulence, Sturm und Drang]

2 a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market" [syn: convulsion, turmoil]

3 (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) [syn: uplift, upthrow, upthrust]

4 disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation, excitement, turmoil, hullabaloo]

English

Noun

1. the process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust
2. a sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion

Translations

about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, amelioration, apoplexy, apostasy, apotheosis, ascent, assumption, beatification, betterment, blaze, bouleversement, break, breakup, burst, canonization, cataclysm, catastrophe, change, change of heart, changeableness, chaos, clamor, climax, commotion, confusion, constructive change, continuity, conversion, convulsion, cyclone, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deification, deterioration, deviation, diastrophism, difference, disaster, discontinuity, disorder, disruption, disturbance, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, downfall, elevation, enshrinement, erection, eruption, escalation, exaltation, explosion, fall, ferment, fit, fitting, flare-up, flip-flop, furor, furore, gale, gradual change, gust, heaving, height, hurricane, improvement, irruption, lifting, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, outbreak, outburst, outcry, overthrow, overturn, paroxysm, prostration, quake, qualification, radical change, raising, re-creation, realignment, rearing, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, sabotage, seizure, shift, spasm, stirring, storm, stroke, subversion, sudden change, sursum corda, switch, temblor, tempest, tidal wave, tornado, total change, transition, tsunami, tumult, turn, turnabout, unrest, upbuoying, upcast, uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, upset, upthrow, upthrust, upturn, variation, variety, violent change, whirlwind, worsening