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  • If men were behind this there'd be a terrible ruction. —  UK:RESISTANCE
  • Slide 42: International The school has an international Bachelor - degree study group where the language of inst - Business School ruction is English. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The Labour-Alliance ruction should have provided Act and National with a warning of the dangers of a hard fight on the right between the two. —  liberation
  • Wasn't you tellin' me in revival time that Eve made all the 'ruction 'twixt the man and God? —  The Quickening
  • He wishes us well, he says, but won't do anything till there comes an open 'ruction, and then he'll join us, but not before. —  The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Possibly alteration of insurrection.

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. Prob. a dial, perversion of eruption.
 

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/ˈrəkʃən/
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