Upheaval

French Meaning

bouleversement

soulèvement

agitation

perturbation

séisme

renversement

convulsion

English Meaning

  1. The process of being heaved upward.
  2. An instance of being so heaved.
  3. A sudden, violent disruption or upset: "the psychic upheaval caused by war” ( Wallace Fowlie).
  4. Geology A raising of a part of the earth's crust.