upheaval – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
מילים נרדפות: disorder,
hoo-ha,
to-do,
flutter,
kerfuffle,
hoo-hah,
commotion,
disturbance,
disruption,
hurly burly,
ascension,
ascent,
rising,
rise
upheaval
n.
sudden disruption or disturbance (as in the social or political situation); elevation (especially in the surface of the earth)
upheaval
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"
(synonym) turbulence, Sturm und Drang
(hypernym) disorder
(hyponym) agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest
(classification) politics, political science, government
2. a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
(synonym) convulsion, turmoil
(hypernym) disturbance, disruption, commotion, stir, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle
3. (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
(synonym) uplift, upthrow, upthrust
(hypernym) rise, rising, ascent, ascension
(derivation) upheave
(classification) geology
4. disturbance usually in protest
(synonym) agitation, excitement, turmoil, hullabaloo
(hypernym) disturbance
upheaval
n.
rozvrat
upheaval
Rzecz.
wstrząs
Upheaval
(n.)
The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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