Upheaval

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The process of being heaved upward.
  • n. An instance of being so heaved.
  • n. A sudden, violent disruption or upset: "the psychic upheaval caused by war” ( Wallace Fowlie).
  • n. Geology A raising of a part of the earth's crust.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust
  • n. a sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; a heaving or lifting up; specifically, in geology, a disturbance of a part of the earth's crust, having as one of its results that certain areas occupy a higher position with reference to adjacent areas than they did before the disturbance took place.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a violent disturbance
  • n. disturbance usually in protest
  • n. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
  • n. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    disturbance    commotion    hoo-hah    flutter    kerfuffle    hoo-ha    hurly-burly    disruption    to-do    rising   
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    cataclysm    debacle    paroxysm   
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    evil    medieval    primeval    retrieval    weavil    weevil   
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