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revolution

Roget category 146

1. Words expressing abstract relations
1.7. Change
›› 1.7.1. Simple change

#146. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution

noun

revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break updestruction etc. 162sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic changechange of state, phase changequantum leap, quantum jumpclean sweep, coup d'etat [Fr.], counter revolution.
jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilienceexplosionspasm, convulsion, throe, revulsionstorm, earthquake, cataclysm.
legerdemain etc. (trick) 545.

verb

revolutionizenew model, remodel, recast strike out something new, break with the pastchange the face of, unsex.

adjective

unrecognizablerevolutionary.

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