Upheaval

Noun

 * 1) the process of being heaved upward, especially the raising of part of the earth's crust
 * 2) a sudden violent upset, disruption or convulsion

Adjectives for Upheaval
volcanic; economic; religious; devastating; sensuous; business; fatal; passionate; violent; sudden; wild.

Verbs for Upheaval
avert—; precipitate—; quash—; quell—; suppress—;  —agitates;   —arouses;   — awakens; —characterizes; —convulses; — dashes; —demolishes; —discloses.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From.

Translations

 * Chinese: 隆起
 * Finnish: maanpinnan kohoaminen
 * German:


 * Russian: подъём
 * Spanish: surgimiento
 * Swedish: omstörtning, omvälvning, kaos


 * Chinese: 动乱, 动荡
 * Finnish: mullistus, kumous


 * German: