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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun upheaval has 4 senses
- upheaval(n = noun.state) sturm und drang, turbulence - a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" is a kind of disorder
- upheaval(n = noun.state) convulsion, turmoil - a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market" is a kind of commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do
- upheaval(n = noun.event) uplift, upthrow, upthrust - (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building); Array is a kind of ascension, ascent, rise, rising
- upheaval(n = noun.act) agitation, excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil - disturbance usually in protest; Array is a kind of disturbance
has particulars: agitation, ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest, roller coaster, violence
Derived form verb upheave1
CIDE DICTIONARY
upheaval, n.
The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. Lubbock. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
upheaval, n.
1 a violent or sudden change or disruption.
2 Geol. an upward displacement of part of the earth's crust.
3 the act or an instance of heaving up.
1 a violent or sudden change or disruption.
2 Geol. an upward displacement of part of the earth's crust.
3 the act or an instance of heaving up.
THESAURUS
upheaval
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, worseningROGET THESAURUS
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Elevation
N elevation, raising, erection, lift, sublevation, upheaval, sublimation, exaltation, prominence, lever, crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch, dredge, dredger, dredging machine, dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift, elevated, stilted, attollent, rampant, on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind legs.
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