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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

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

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

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

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Upheaval \Up*heav"al\, 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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

upheaval
    n 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,
         upheaval, Sturm und Drang]
    2: a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
       [syn: convulsion, turmoil, upheaval]
    3: (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the
       process of mountain building) [syn: upheaval, uplift,
       upthrow, upthrust]
    4: disturbance usually in protest [syn: agitation,
       excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo]