UPHEAVAL

A state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)

• Cataclysmic change

• Commotion

• Extreme turmoil

• Shake-up

• Strong disturbance

• Sudden disruption

• Sudden, violent disturbance

• Turmoil

• Violent change

• Violent disturbance

• (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)

• Disturbance usually in protest