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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A state of extreme confusion or agitation; commotion or tumult: a country in turmoil over labor strikes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To disturb; agitate; trouble; disquiet.
  2. To labor amid trouble, worriment, or vexation; be disquieted or in trouble; worry.
  3. n. Distracting stir, bustle, commotion, confusion, or din; tumult; disturbance; agitation; trouble; disquiet.
  4. n. Synonyms Confusion, bustle, uproar.

Wiktionary

  1. n. chaos
  2. n. disorder

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
  2. v. To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
  3. v. To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. disturbance usually in protest
  2. n. violent agitation
  3. n. a violent disturbance

Etymologies

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