upheaval

IPA: ʌphˈivʌɫ

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

Examples of "upheaval" in Sentences

And that upheaval is typically accompanied by a prominent face.
This appears to happen in what we call the upheaval stage of family grief.
This year's political upheaval is also reflected in the new tome, with Con-Dem, Con-Lib and Lib-Con all making the cut.
Religious thought was in upheaval and radical thinkers like Rabelais were emerging to challenge the religious status quo.
Whatever its final contours, the expected electoral upheaval is all but certain to reshape the remaining two years of Obama's term.
Yet since world upheaval is pervasive, and there are three deaths the first in a car crash, the second in war, the third by suicide some may regard it as an anatomy of melancholy.