Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A riotous disturbance; a noisy quarrel.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vexation or annoyance; also, a disturbance; a row or rumpus.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Prov. Eng. & Scot. An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of making a noisy disturbance
Etymologies
- Possibly a shortening and modification of insurrection. (Wiktionary)
- Possibly alteration of insurrection. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Slide 42: International The school has an international Bachelor - degree study group where the language of inst - Business School ruction is English.”
“It would be better to arrive in California without a rag to our backs than to leave our bones here; and leave them we will if we start a ruction.”
“What do I win? on March 24, 2009 at 10: 33 am | Reply ex-ruction”
“All are waiting for some market ruction hairy enough that the central bank will cast aside every political and legal restraint in order to save the euro.”
“I thought I would get this out to the big, wide policing world! on January 12, 2010 at 8: 32 pm ex-ruction”
“Keep up the good work! on January 11, 2010 at 6: 20 pm ex-ruction”
“Comforting thought to take into the new decade, eh? on January 1, 2010 at 12: 29 pm ex-ruction not so long back a guy (travelling with caravans type) had the all the custody cell keys placed in his vast special pocket with a bit of spare cash.”
“They's a man up the Little Peco that's had a ruction with a panther, an 'the way he's clawed is something scand'lous.”
“And doing my work well, the innate justice of the men, assisted by their wholesome dislike for a clawing and rending wild-cat ruction, soon led them to give over their hectoring.”
“Rest in Peace PC Pratt. on June 15, 2009 at 8: 06 am ex-ruction needless waste of a life”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ruction’.
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
raad, rabanna, rabbet, rabble, Rabelaisian, rabic, racemation, raceme, racemiferous, rach, rachidian, rachiometer and 514 more...
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Favorite Words Ending In 'tion
obfuscation, delineation, ratiocination, proprioception, gesticulation, oscillation, undulation, fasciculation, confabulation, interdiction, juxtaposition, commiseration and 41 more...
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Words
Different Words
collectress, tachygenesis, star-scattered, liquescent, hyemation, boggler, springal, domineering, emove, repugn, kea, pettah and 19 more...
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Them's fightin' words
brannigan, fisticuffs, donnybrook, lambaste, fracas, fray, imbroglio, melee, squabble, quarrel, skirmish, stramash and 28 more...
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Columns & Rows
Wordnik is organized as columns.
What a row!peripteral, peristyle, orthostichy, pseudo-dipteral, ployment, indentation, plinth, stylobate, balustrade, chine, trompe, telamon and 75 more...
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caspermilktoast's Words
frenetic, farrago, fandango, ensemble, assay, emulsion, taut, winnow, ridonkulous, ginormous, frisson, idee fixe and 181 more...
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Revised GRE Wordlist_2013
Vocabulary building for my quest of GRE 2013
ephemeral, esoteric, rhetoric, censure, egregious, pittance, dupe, mulct, paucity, alacrity, maintain, laconic and 1008 more...
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Maineisms
Some of these were taken from older literature and have fallen out of use in the past few decades, but many are still used today in the same way they were used a century ago. By no means a compreh...
Yankeedom, wizzled, wing and wing, wickie-up, whiffletree, weewaw, wangan, wainy, upstair, twice-laid, tunket, trig and 136 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1387 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 557 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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Scenariot
Rebellious destruction, police and protestors, or just angry mobs.
bedlam, chaos, havoc, destruction, cataclysm, devastation, mayhem, plunder, ravage, wreckage, destroy, blitzkrieg and 112 more...
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micellaneous
hinky, heath, peat, cicatrix, lark, chateau, gapeseed, obstreperous, mixen, addax, syllogism, colligate and 100 more...
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insults
insults no one will know you've made
kallikak, Boeotian, beadledom, caitiff, fatuity, ozostomia, plumbeous, ruction, sequacity, ventripotent, wifty
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Words to know
parvenu, charnel, quiddity, vorago, atramentous, samizdat, posset, faience, specie, truncheon, vatic, oneiric and 11 more...
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