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Upheaval Common

Origin: Latin suffix -al

Upheaval has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
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

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
disorder disturbance rise
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
agitation roller coaster violence
Rhyming Words
val aval oval eval laval nival roval paval arval koval naval yuval kaval reval orval duval rival moval caval coeval
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