Meaning of upheaval in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions

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  1. Noun

    upheaval

    Definitions

    1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)

    Examples

    • « the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence »
  2. 2. a violent disturbance

    Examples

    • « the convulsions of the stock market »
  3. 3. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

    Derived terms

  4. 4. disturbance usually in protest

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