upheaval

/əphˈivəl/ · 3 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
   “the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence”
2. a violent disturbance
   “the convulsions of the stock market”
3. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
4. disturbance usually in protest

Synonyms for upheaval

• turbulence
• Sturm und Drang
• convulsion
• turmoil
• uplift
• upthrow
• upthrust
• agitation
• excitement
• hullabaloo

Words that rhyme with upheaval

• evil
• medieval
• retrieval
• primeval
• weevil
• edival
• keevil
• knievel
• leavell
• weavil