Turmoil
['tɜːmɒɪl] or ['tɝmɔɪl]
Definition
(n.) Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
(v. t.) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
(v. i.) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
Typist: Tabitha
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tumult, agitation, disturbance, disorder, turbulence, confusion, commotion, uproar, bustle, huddle, hurly-burly.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FLEXIBLE_and_OBSTINATE]
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Definition
n. harassing labour: disturbance.—v.t. to harass with commotion: to weary.—v.i. to be disquieted or in commotion.
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Examples
- He stared after her in a turmoil of contradictory feelings. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Directory was pleased with the offer, but the government was in so much of a turmoil that it was months before any positive action was taken. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I left my narrative in the quiet shadow of Limmeridge church--I resume it, one week later, in the stir and turmoil of a London street. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- My energy of will was gone--my strength was exhausted--the turmoil of my thoughts was fearfully and suddenly stilled, now I knew that he was dead. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her tone was so natural, so almost indifferent, that Archer's turmoil subsided. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I knew that I was needed there, but I dared not leave Dejah Thoris, nor dared I take her with me into the turmoil and danger of battle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- There were the same squalor, the same turmoil and noise, the same general characteristics, in every corner; in the best and the worst alike. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is constant atmospheric turmoil, and the question is how to maintain a balance in these currents that bear the machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You're a man of peace, sir; but we manufacturers, living in the world, and always in turmoil, get quite belligerent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Howeverthat turmoil subsided: next day I was again Lucy Snowe. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The religious and political turmoils in Germany in the sixteenth century gave an immense impetus to printing there. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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