Upheaval

Definition: Upheaval

Upheaval

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. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building).

3. Disturbance usually in protest.

Date "upheaval" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	A structurally high area in the crust, produced by positive movements that raise or upthrust the rocks. (Cf. "dépression tectonique" no 5126). Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonyms: Upheaval

Synonyms: agitation (n), excitement (n), hullabaloo (n), turbulence (n), turmoil (n), uplift (n), upthrow (n), upthrust (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Elevation	Noun: elevation; raising; Verb: erection, lift; sublevation, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence; (convexity).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Upheaval

English words defined with "upheaval": incurious ♦ relocation, resettlement ♦ transplantation. (references)

Specialty definitions using "upheaval": HOUSECLEANING ♦ resettlement compensation ♦ tiding-over allowance. (references)

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

The Upheaval (1916)

Upheaval (2001)

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Domain	Title
Books	Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late-Twentieth-Century America (reference) Come Watch the Sun Go Home: A Memoir of Upheaval and Revolution in China (reference) Earth in Upheaval (reference) Fragmentations and Dramatic Moments: Zhang Tianyi and the Narrative Discourse of Upheaval in Modern China (Asian Thought and Culture, 54) (reference) Global Insecurity: Energy, Society, and Upheaval in the Rest of This Century (reference) (more book examples)

Music	By Means of Upheaval (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Upheaval in floor of Panama Canal. Credit: Library of Congress.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		Even now, many of the largest textile manufacturers are still run by the heirs of textile entrepreneurs that fled the Mainland during late 1940s because of political upheaval. (references)
Children	India	In May Kul Chandra Gautam, the Deputy Director of UNICEF, stated during a meeting of regional senior government leaders, that the "human landscape in our region continues to be characterized by poverty, underdevelopment, discrimination, environmental degradation, social upheaval, conflict and natural disasters. (references)
Economic History	Spain	The Internet market is booming but is reportedly on the verge of a major upheaval. (references)
	Zimbabwe	Beginning in 1999, Zimbabwe has experienced a period of considerable political and economic upheaval. (references)
Political Economy	Fiji	Investment is depressed due to continuing concerns over the resolution of land lease issues and political upheaval. (references)
	INDONESIA	The weakness of the central government in a period of significant political upheaval has encouraged special interests, especially in the agricultural sector, to seek to reinstate some former special trade privileges. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	The world upheaval has added heavily to our tasks.
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"Upheaval" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.79% of the time. "Upheaval" is used about 248 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.79%	245	19,065
Adjective (general or positive)	1.21%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	248	N/A

Expressions using "upheaval": emotional upheaval ♦ political upheaval ♦ social upheaval. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "upheaval"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		trazirë (bewilderment, commotion, convulsion, disorder, dustup, fuss, hustle, outbreak, pother, qualm, queasiness, queasy, riot, ruction, shindy, turbulence, turmoil), rrëmujë (alarm, bustle, clutter, disarray, disorder, disturbance, dust, farrago, hash, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, jumble, litter, mess, mix up, moil, muss, pandemonium, pell mell, pie, pother, roistering, snafu, tangle, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, tumble, upset, welter), përmbysje (dislocation, fall, overturn, subversion, tumbling, upset). (various references)

Arabic		‏هيجان (bustling, eruption, outburst, seethe), ‏جيشان (heave), ‏إنقلاب (coup, coup d'etat, inverse, inversion, reversal, revolution, topsy-turvydom, vicissitude), ‏إرتفاع (advance, altitude, augment, elevation, heaviness, heaving, height, high, highness, inflation, loftiness, raise, rise, rising), ‏ثورة (commotion, mutiny, outbreak, rampage, rebellion, revolt, revolution, rising, uprising), ‏ثوران (eruption, outburst). (various references)

Bulgarian		рязка социална промяна, рязка политическа промяна, разместване на пластовете (uplift), катаклизъм (cataclysm, catastrophe, upthrow). (various references)

Chinese		大变动, 動蕩 (turmoil, unrest), 動亂 (turmoil). (various references)

Czech		vření (fermentation), sociální hnutí, rozvrat (decline, demoralization, disintegration), otřesy (disturbances). (various references)

Danish		hævning (elevation, jacking up, lifting, picking, raising, uplift, uplift (of the earth's crust)). (various references)

Dutch		opheffing (abrogation, cancellation, repeal, rescission, show of hands, suspension, suspension of staff, uplift, uplift (of the earth's crust)). (various references)

Farsi		تحول (Evolution, Mutation, Solstice, Vicissitude), تغییرفاحش , انقلاب (Mutation, Revolt, Revolution), بالاامدن (Rise, Uprise). (various references)

Finnish		kohoaminen (promotion, rising). (various references)

French		soulèvement (uplift, uprising). (various references)

German		Erhebung (census, elatedness, elevation, ennoblement, enquiry, exaltation, imposition, inquiry, investigation, levy, levying, mutiny, raising, revolt, rise, rising, survey, uplift, uprising). (various references)

Greek		αναστάτωση (commotion, convulsion, disorganization, disruption, flurry, fuss), αν?ψωση (uplift). (various references)

Hebrew		מ�"פך (change over, reverse, revolution, shake up, tropic), ת�"פוכ�" (deceit, perverseness, perversity, vicissitude), א� �"רלמוסי�" (chaos, confusion, disorder, pandemonium, pestilence, plaque, tumult, turmoil), סער (gale, gust, storm, tempest). (various references)

Hungarian		felfordulás (cataclysm, clutter, combustion, commotion, confusion, convulsions, earthquake, hoo-ha, hoopla, huddle, hurly burly, hurly-burly, hurry-skurry, mess, mix, mix-up, muddle, muss, subversion, tangled skein, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, upset, upsetting, whoop-de-doo). (various references)

Indonesian		pergolakan (turbulence), pancaroba (transition period). (various references)

Italian		sollevamento (heave, hoist, lift, raising, uplift). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		劇変 (sudden change), 激変 (sudden change), 激動 (agitation, terrible shock), 変革 (change, reform, Reformation, revolution), 大�'れ (agitation, great storm), 動乱 (agitation, commotion, disturbance, riot). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おおあれ (agitation, great storm), どうら�" (agitation, case for botanical specimens, commotion, disturbance, riot), �'きどう (agitation, drama, dramatic art, terrible shock), �'きへ�" (sudden change), へ�"かく (change, irregular conjugation, irregularity, reform, Reformation, revolution). (various references)

Pig Latin		eavaluphay

Portuguese		sublevação (rebellion, revolt, rising), revolta (insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, rebellion, revolt, uprising), perturbação (blankness, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, discomposure, disquiet, embarrassment, flurry, fret, fuddle, gall, interference, ruffle, trepidation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, unrest), elevação (ascension, elevation, eminence, exaltation, ledge, lifting, loftiness, raise, rise, rising, sublimation, up, uplift, uprise), convulsão social, agitação (agitation, commotion, disturbance, emotion, excitation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, inquietude, perturbation, popple, racket, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, state, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest). (various references)

Romanian		ridicare a straturilor, revoltã (disorder, indignation, insurgence, insurgency, rebellion, revolt, uprise), rãsturnare (overthrow, spill, tip, upset, upsetting), prefacere (change, transformation), deplasare (dislocation, displacement, move, movement, shifting). (various references)

Russian		переворот (overturn, take over). (various references)

Scottish		tunnsgadh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		preokret (reversal, shift, switch, turn over, turnover, vicissitude, volte-face). (various references)

Spanish		solevantamiento (upthrust), levantamiento (erection, insurgence, insurgency, lift, lifting, raising, rise, uprising), convulsión (convulsion). (various references)

Swedish		omvälvning (convulsion, revolution). (various references)

Turkish		yükselme (advance, advancement, ascension, ascent, climb, distinction, escalation, flux, gain, hike, increase, pickup, preferment, progress, promotion, promotional, raise, rise, rising, scaling, step up, swell, swelling, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), karışıklık (bedlam, bungle, cataclysm, chaos, clamor, clamour, clutter, commotion, complexity, complication, confusion, disarrangement, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disturbance, dogs dinner, embroilment, ferment, fermentation, fray, frenzy, fuss, fuss and kerfufle, grab bag, havoc, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, huddle, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hurly burly, imbroglio, indiscrimination, intricacy, involution, jungle, kerfufle, maziness, mess, mishmash, misrule, mix, mix up, muddle, muss, perturbation, pie, pother, pretty kettle of fish, promiscuity, Ravel, riot, rough and tumble, ruckus, ruction, snafu, snarl, snarl up, stir, swirl, tangle, topsyturvy, topsyturvydom, tumble, turbidity, turbulence, unrest, upset, wooliness, woolliness), kabarma (eruption, flow, ground swell, heave, heaving, intumescence, pulvinate, surge, surging, swell, swelling, uprising, upsurge, upthrust), devrim (reform, reformation, revolution), büyük değişiklik (turn round), ayaklanma (breach of the peace, commotion, insurgence, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, putsch, rebellion, revolt, riot, rising, uprising). (various references)

Ukrainian		зрушення (offset), переворот (catastrophe, overturn, revolution, take over). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự nổi lên (emergence, emersion), sự chấn động (convulsion, jar, tremor), sự biến động đột ngột. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	commutatio, commutatione, commutationem, commutationes, commutationibus, commutationum, vexamen, vexatio, vexationem, vexationes, vexationis. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "upheaval": upheavals. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Upheaval" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cunhaval, upeaval, upheaveal, upheavel, upheavle, upheval. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "upheaval" (pronounced uphē"vul)
4	-ē" v u l	evil, medieval, primeval, retrieval, weevil.
3	-v u l	anvil, approval, archival, arrival, arval, bedevil, bevel, carnival, civil, daredevil, devil, disapproval, dishevel, drivel, festival, gavel, gravel, grovel, hovel, interval, larval, level, marvel, multilevel, naval, navel, novel, oval, Ravel, removal, revel, revival, rival, servile, shovel, shrivel, survival, swivel, travel, uncivil, unravel.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-e-h-l-p-u-v"
	-3 letters: aleph, alpha, halva, halve, lehua, palea, uveal, value.
	-4 letters: alae, epha, hale, haul, have, heal, heap, help, hula, lava, lave, leap, leva, pale, pave, peal, plea, pula, pule, ulva, uvea, vale, veal, vela.
	-5 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, ale, alp, ape, ava, ave, eau, hae, hap, hep, hue, hup, lap, lav, lea, leu.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-e-h-l-p-u-v"
	+1 letter: upheavals.
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