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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"
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ʌpˈhi.vəl
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noun
A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence"
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A violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
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(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
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Disturbance usually in protest
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