Origin: Latin
suffix -al
Upheaval has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
Noun
Noun
1
a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
"the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
2
a violent disturbance
"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
5
change, from one state to another
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