Meaning of upheaval

Definition of upheaval

(noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"

a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"

(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

disturbance usually in protest

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