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upheaval
/əpˈhivəl/ · 8 letters · 7 distinct letters
- noun
a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence
- noun
a violent disturbance
the convulsions of the stock market
- noun
(geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
- noun
disturbance usually in protest