upheaval
英 [ʌp'hiːv(ə)l]
美[ʌp'hivl]
- n. 剧变；隆起；举起
英英释意
- 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