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UPHEAVAL

Definition:

1. [noun] a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
   Synonyms: turbulence, Sturm und Drang
   
   
2. [noun] a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
   Synonyms: convulsion, turmoil
   
   
3. [noun] (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
   Synonyms: uplift, upthrow, upthrust
   
   
4. [noun] disturbance usually in protest
   Synonyms: agitation, excitement, turmoil, hullabaloo
   
   

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Related Words:

• agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest
• roller coaster
• violence

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