upheaval : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: upheaval	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for upheaval
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
upheaval n a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence" Synonym(s): turbulence, upheaval, Sturm und Drang a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market" Synonym(s): convulsion, turmoil, upheaval (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) Synonym(s): upheaval, uplift, upthrow, upthrust disturbance usually in protest Synonym(s): agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Upheaval \Up*heav"al\, n. The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. --Lubbock.