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Meaning of upheaval in English
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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.
a violent disturbance
Examples
« the convulsions of the stock market »
3.
(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
4.
disturbance usually in protest