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US
/əpˈhivəɫ/
]
[ UK /ʌphˈiːvəl/ ]
[ UK /ʌphˈiːvəl/ ]
NOUN
- (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
- disturbance usually in protest
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a violent disturbance
the convulsions of the stock market -
a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence
How To Use upheaval In A Sentence
- And even in their efforts to upraise the social revolution -- the great upheaval to which all A Girl Among the Anarchists
- Since the late '70s, and the fashion upheaval wrought by punk rock, people have been spearing the little metal pins through their ears or leather jackets.
- Despite subsequent upheavals, the French have never seriously considered restoring the monarchy since.
- Despite the upheaval resulting from the arrival of Business Casual in the workplace and what has been described as the casualization of America, women rising through management ranks stick to their suits. “I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear”
- But they can have had little inkling of the social revolution or the economic upheavals that the next half-century had in store. Times, Sunday Times
- What I didn't reckon on was that this hormonal upheaval was also going to result in my voice breaking.
- We did not want to go through the upheaval of this again. The Sun
- This was also a society undergoing huge change and upheaval – phyically as the railways shrank the land and technology changed the world of work from field to factory, mentally as the revelations of Darwin detonated under Christianity. Evil Book Thingy
- However, the losses in market value are distributed unevenly, with some regions showing a surprising resilience to the market upheaval.
- The loss of his high-paying job caused enormous domestic upheaval.