Usually means: Significant disruption to normal state.
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  1. upheaval: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. upheaval: Merriam-Webster
  3. upheaval: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. upheaval: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. upheaval: Collins English Dictionary
  6. upheaval: Vocabulary.com
  7. Upheaval, upheaval: Wordnik
  8. upheaval: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. upheaval: Wiktionary
  10. upheaval: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. upheaval: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. upheaval: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. upheaval: Dictionary.com
  14. upheaval: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. upheaval: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Upheaval: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. upheaval: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. upheaval: Rhymezone
  19. upheaval: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. upheaval: FreeDictionary.org
  21. upheaval: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. upheaval: TheFreeDictionary.com

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noun:  Disruptive change, from one state to another.
noun:  The process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust.
noun:  A sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion.

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