Synonym: Sturm und Drang, agitation, convulsion, excitement, hullabaloo, turbulence, turmoil, uplift, upthrow, upthrust. Similar words: euphemism, euphemistic, naval, euphemistically, be available, heavy, heave, cavalier. Meaning: [ʌp'hɪːvl] 
n. 1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) 2. a violent disturbance 3. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) 4. disturbance usually in protest.
n. 1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) 2. a violent disturbance 3. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) 4. disturbance usually in protest. 
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31. Moreover, in the absence of any evidence of impending upheaval, individual peasants were wary of risking involvement in seditious talk.
32. All this was, it transpired, the result of an upheaval deep within the cell.
33. Safeguarding the security blanket can be very important in coping with considerable upheaval.
34. Yet nausea and bone-weariness were mere pinpricks compared to the emotional upheaval she was going through.
35. It is manifest that they were too weak and uninfluential to produce such a major upheaval by their own efforts.
36. The decade following the Crimean War saw the most dramatic social and institutional upheaval that the Empire had ever undergone.
37. Even amid so much emotional and physical upheaval, however, Maxwell made himself a better player.
38. This is hardly surprising given that pregnancy causes the biggest hormonal upheaval your body has experienced since puberty.
39. Whatever they had been at home, now they suffered from the poverty and dislocation that came with their sudden upheaval.
40. But the New York-based company's structure underwent a massive upheaval after industry rivals Lasmo won a three-month takeover battle last December.
41. He said that it was strange that so few were facing charges after the widespread upheaval of 1989.
42. Yet it is by no means certain that the next political upheaval will take place on the streets.
43. Such a pattern of attitudes is what one might expect from people suddenly drawn into politics by a revolutionary upheaval.
44. A terrific industrial upheaval at the present moment might be dangerous from the standpoint of a democratic People's Peace.
45. NatWest also made a mint from the upheaval in the money markets last year.
46. This period of upheaval was to have an epoch-making impact upon the whole structure of Muscovite society.
47. Worse, as Greenberg notes, much is beyond its control, notably the risk of political or economic upheaval.
48. At this time of emotional upheaval, the accepted roles soothe anxiety.
49. Political upheaval in the Soviet Union damped demand in that market.
50. The Iron Rock is a core of molten iron vomited from the bowels of the earth during some incalculably ancient upheaval.
51. This pattern continued relatively undisturbed until 1959, when a short period of major upheaval began.
52. He hadn't realised pregnancy was such a dislocating experience, or even that getting married itself would cause such an upheaval.
53. Ministry and government officials downplay the April upheaval.
54. Leipzig is currently experiencing a time of social upheaval.
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55. This must be carried out without social upheaval.
56. The country has been thrown into an upheaval.
57. Of course, political upheaval could unhinge all the above.
58. Hitler described the Yugoslav situation after the upheaval.
59. The risk of social and political upheaval may grow.
60. The last 30 years social upheaval are also over.
More similar words: euphemism, euphemistic, naval, euphemistically, be available, heavy, heave, cavalier, heaven, avalanche, heaving, heavens, heavily, pheasant, move heaven and earth, uphold, uphill, euphoric, euphoria, euphonious, weave, leave, eaves, cleave, savage, avatar, ravage, sphere, cipher, leave off.