Commotion
[kə'məʊʃ(ə)n] or [kə'moʃən]
Definition
(n.) Disturbed or violent motion; agitation.
(n.) A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot.
(n.) Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
Checker: Scott
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Agitation, disturbance, perturbation.[2]. Turmoil, turbulence, tumult, disorder, violence, bustle, pother, ado, TO-DO.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Agitation, disturbance, tumult, excitement, turmoil, perturbation
ANT:Quiescence, calm, subsidence, pacification, tranquillity, mitigation,appeasement, soothing, allaying, moderating
Typist: Meg
Examples
- He knew how much he had to do--more than his usual work, owing to the commotion of the day before. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The surface of the oil remains smooth and undisturbed, while the water is agitated with the utmost commotion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The answer was cut short by Sarah and her mistress entering the kitchen together in some commotion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It has never, accordingly, been the occasion of any tumult or civil commotion in any country in which it has once been established. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Never had such a commotion agitated the town before. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The bride, who had just reached the top of the steps, turned round gaily to see what was the commotion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mr. Rochester turned mechanically to _see_ what the commotion was: but as he _saw_ nothing, he returned and sighed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That commotion is of her raising, I'll be bound! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There was a commotion in the yard, and a man came running out of the stables to know if he meant up or down. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Home seemed unnaturally quiet after all this terror and noisy commotion. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But I must return; the house would be in commotion if I failed to appear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- When I returned from Knoxville I found quite a commotion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- His approach caused the evacuation of that city about the time we were at Appomattox, and was the cause of a commotion we heard of there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I passed from the palace of Sweet Waters to the plain on which the encampment lay, and found its inhabitants in commotion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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