The country was in a state of upheaval.
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Upheaval
//ʌpˈhiː.vəl//
Synonyms for "upheaval" (165 found)
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Closest matches (33)
Strong matches (50)
Related words (82)
improvementirruptionliftingmeliorationmitigationmodificationmodulationoutbreakoutburstoutcryoverthrowoverturnparoxysmprostrationquakequalificationradical changeraisingre creationre-creation
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11 entriesTranslations
62 translations across 19 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِضْطِرَاب noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Bulgarian
1 entries- катаклизъм noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Catalan
2 entries- daltabaix noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- trastorn noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 動亂 /动乱 noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- 動盪 /动荡 noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- 隆起 noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
Czech
4 entries- otřes noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- pozdvižení noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- převrat noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- rozvrat noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Esperanto
2 entries- konvulsio noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- tumulto noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Finnish
3 entries- kumous noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- maanpinnan kohoaminen noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- mullistus noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
French
3 entries- bouleversement noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- soulèvement noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- surrection noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
Georgian
4 entries- არეულ-დარეულობა noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- არეულობა noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- დაძვრა noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- მიწის ფენების გადანაცვლება noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
German
4 entries- Aufruhr noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- Aufwölbung noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- Erhebung noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- Umbruch noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Greek
2 entries- της τρελής noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- χαμός noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Italian
1 entries- sollevamento noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
Māori
2 entries- akaaka noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- tairangatanga noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
Polish
2 entries- afera noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- wstrząs noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Russian
4 entries- беспоря́дки noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- бунт noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- возмуще́ние noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- переворо́т noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Spanish
2 entries- convulsión noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- surgimiento noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
Swedish
3 entries- kaos noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- omstörtning noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- omvälvning noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Turkish
4 entries- ani değişiklik noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- inkılap noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- kabarma noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- yükselme noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
Ukrainian
4 entries- заворушення noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
- зміщення noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- зрушення noun (process of being heaved upward, especially of the earth's crust)
- переворот noun (sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The Industrial Revolution caused a great upheaval in society.
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Last week's financial upheaval hit Wall Street, the nation and the world pretty hard, but many people in New York kept their tough, impervious, can-do attitude alive and well.
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That upheaval greatly accelerated Mary's brother's baldness.
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