upheaval

• upheaval

upheaval

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
• upheaval
• Sturm und Drang

Noun

a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"

Synonyms:

• convulsion
• turmoil
• upheaval

Noun

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

Synonyms:

• upheaval
• uplift
• upthrow
• upthrust

Noun

disturbance usually in protest

Synonyms:

• agitation
• excitement
• turmoil
• upheaval
• hullabaloo