[ふううんきゅうをつげる, fuuunkyuuwotsugeru] (exp, v1) to have grown tense (of a situation); to have become critical (and to be on the verge of a major upheaval) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Upheaval \Up*heav"al\, n.
The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp.,
an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust. --Lubbock.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
upheaval
n 1: a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics
or social conditions generally); "the industrial revolution
was a period of great turbulence" [syn: {turbulence},
{upheaval}, {Sturm und Drang}]
2: a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock market"
[syn: {convulsion}, {turmoil}, {upheaval}]
3: (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the
process of mountain building) [syn: {upheaval}, {uplift},
{upthrow}, {upthrust}]
4: disturbance usually in protest [syn: {agitation},
{excitement}, {turmoil}, {upheaval}, {hullabaloo}]
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