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upheaval 音标拼音: [əph'ivəl] n. 举起,隆起,大变动,剧变 举起,隆起,大变动,剧变 upheaval n 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}, { upheaval}, { Sturm und Drang}] 2: a violent disturbance; " the convulsions of the stock market" [ synonym: { convulsion}, { turmoil}, { upheaval}] 3: ( geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation ( as in the process of mountain building) [ synonym: { upheaval}, { uplift}, { upthrow}, { upthrust}] 4: disturbance usually in protest [ synonym: { agitation}, { excitement}, { turmoil}, { upheaval}, { hullabaloo}] Upheaval \ Up* heav" al\, n. The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth' s crust. -- Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster] 142 Moby Thesaurus words for " upheaval": about- face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, alteration, amelioration, apoplexy, apostasy, apotheosis, ascent, assumption, beatification, betterment, blaze, bouleversement, break, breakup, burst, canonization, cataclysm, catastrophe, change, change of heart, changeableness, chaos, clamor, climax, commotion, confusion, constructive change, continuity, conversion, convulsion, cyclone, defection, degeneration, degenerative change, deification, deterioration, deviation, diastrophism, difference, disaster, discontinuity, disorder, disruption, disturbance, divergence, diversification, diversion, diversity, downfall, elevation, enshrinement, erection, eruption, escalation, exaltation, explosion, fall, ferment, fit, fitting, flare- up, flip- flop, furor, furore, gale, gradual change, gust, heaving, height, hurricane, improvement, irruption, lifting, melioration, mitigation, modification, modulation, outbreak, outburst, outcry, overthrow, overturn, paroxysm, prostration, quake, qualification, radical change, raising, re- creation, realignment, rearing, redesign, reform, reformation, remaking, renewal, reshaping, restructuring, reversal, revival, revivification, revolution, sabotage, seizure, shift, spasm, stirring, storm, stroke, subversion, sudden change, sursum corda, switch, temblor, tempest, tidal wave, tornado, total change, transition, tsunami, tumult, turn, turnabout, unrest, upbuoying, upcast, uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, upset, upthrow, upthrust, upturn, variation, variety, violent change, whirlwind, worsening
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