Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of being heaved upward.
- noun An instance of being so heaved.
- noun A sudden, violent disruption or upset.
- noun Geology A raising of a part of the earth's crust.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; a heaving or lifting up; specifically, in geology, a disturbance of a part of the earth's crust, having as one of its results that certain areas occupy a higher position with reference to adjacent areas than they did before the disturbance took place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
process of beingheaved upward , especially theraising of part of theearth 'scrust - noun a
sudden violent upset ,disruption orconvulsion
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a violent disturbance
- noun disturbance usually in protest
- noun a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
- noun (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
Etymologies
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Examples
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This appears to happen in what we call the upheaval stage of family grief.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: When Does Grief Become Mental Illness? Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2012
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This appears to happen in what we call the upheaval stage of family grief.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: When Does Grief Become Mental Illness? Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2012
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This appears to happen in what we call the upheaval stage of family grief.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: When Does Grief Become Mental Illness? Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2012
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This appears to happen in what we call the upheaval stage of family grief.
Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.: When Does Grief Become Mental Illness? Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2012
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This appears to happen in what we call the upheaval stage of family grief.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ph.D. Joseph Nowinski 2012
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And that upheaval is typically accompanied by a prominent face.
Sunday Reading 2009
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Yet since world upheaval is pervasive, and there are three deaths the first in a car crash, the second in war, the third by suicide some may regard it as an anatomy of melancholy.
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Whatever its final contours, the expected electoral upheaval is all but certain to reshape the remaining two years of Obama's term.
Republicans win House majority; Democrats retain Senate majority Chris Cillizza 2010
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This year's political upheaval is also reflected in the new tome, with Con-Dem, Con-Lib and Lib-Con all making the cut.
Simples! Aleksandr the Meerkat gives the dictionary his word Helen Pidd 2010
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Religious thought was in upheaval and radical thinkers like Rabelais were emerging to challenge the religious status quo.
Joanne Harris discusses Gentlemen & Players and her work in general. 2010
tankhughes commented on the word upheaval
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom video game has the hero running through a destroyed kingdom that has been affected by an event called the Upheaval. In the last game, a similar event happened called the Calamity. My guess is that this word is being primed by all the people playing the game and that it will show up with greater frequency this year than normal.
May 25, 2023