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    upheaval

    upheaval - Dictionary definition and meaning for word upheaval

    Definition
    (noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
    Example Sentence
    • the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence
    Definition
    (noun) a violent disturbance
    Synonyms : convulsion , turmoil
    Example Sentence
    • the convulsions of the stock market
    Definition
    (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building)
    Synonyms : uplift , upthrow , upthrust
    Definition
    (noun) disturbance usually in protest
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UP+HILL...what happens when a hill goes up and down...it's a kind of VIOLENT DISRUPTION....

Due to the increasing heat in the atmosphere, a well of water dried up. This created chaos in its society.

god UP in HEAVen is confused and in chaos to see nature disaster by mankind

we go to heaven when evritn collapses


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text: upheaval is only beginning oh how right
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