upheaval
Syllables: up·heav·al/ʌpˈhiːvəl/
upheaval noun: the process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
Noun
upheaval (countable and uncountable, plural upheavals)
- The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
- A disruptive change, from one state to another.
- Scotland's bottleneck junction between the West and East Coast main lines at Carstairs will be the site of major upheaval until the end of May, while £164 million worth of improvements are carried out.2023 March 8, “Network News: Carstairs shut for main line upgrade”, in RAIL, number 978, page 11
- Synonyms:
- seismic shift
- A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.
- Since that upheaval Wales have won just once in seven games, beating Northern Ireland in the Nations Cup last May.2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegr”, in BBC
- Synonyms:
- seismic shift
upheaval meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
upheaval in Hindi
- sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion
- विप्लव viplav, क्रांति krānti
upheaval in Tamil
- உயர்த்துதல்
upheaval in Urdu
- upheaval; commotion; revolution
- بھونچال bha͠ucāl
upheaval in Bengali
- upheaval
- ডামাডোল ḍamaḍōl
More languagesFewer languages
- upheaval in Malayalam
- പൊന്തൽ, ഭിന്നത, പിളർപ്പ്, അസ്വസ്ഥത
- upheaval in Kannada
- ಎತ್ತಿಕೆ, ಉರುಬಿನ ಮಾರ್ಪಾಡು, ದೊಡ್ಡ ಮಾರ್ಪಾಡು, ಭಾರಿ ಬದಲಾವಣೆ
- upheaval in Punjabi
- ਉਥਲ-ਪੁਥਲ
- upheaval in Gujarati
- ઉથલપાથલ, ઉથલ-પાથલ, ઊથલપાથલ
- upheaval in Nepali
- उथलपुथल, उथल-पुथल
- upheaval in Arabic
- اِضْطِرَاب iḍṭirāb
Examples of upheaval in a sentence
- Their convergence is creating a new axis of upheaval—a development that is fundamentally altering the geopolitical landscape.
- These upheavals occurred almost homoplasiously with European states agitating to be autexousious.
- Nationalist upheaval consumed Yugoslavia after the death of Tito, the ironhanded unifier.
Synonyms of upheaval
Forms of upheaval
| plural | upheavals |
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Origin of upheaval
From upheave + -al.
Words formed from upheaval
Words that rhyme with upheaval
Questions about upheaval
- What does upheaval mean?
- Upheaval means the process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
- What is upheaval in Hindi?
- Upheaval in Hindi is विप्लव (viplav), क्रांति (krānti). See Upheaval meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is upheaval?
- Upheaval is a noun.
- How do you pronounce upheaval?
- Upheaval is pronounced /ʌpˈhiːvəl/.
- What is the plural of upheaval?
- The plural of upheaval is upheavals.
Words near upheaval in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: upheaval (page history and authors); upheaval (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بھونچال (Urdu) (page history and authors); ডামাডোল (Bengali) (page history and authors); upheaval (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); upheaval (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); upheaval (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); upheaval (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); upheaval (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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