Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A state of extreme confusion or agitation; commotion or tumult: a country in turmoil over labor strikes.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To disturb; agitate; trouble; disquiet.
- To labor amid trouble, worriment, or vexation; be disquieted or in trouble; worry.
- n. Distracting stir, bustle, commotion, confusion, or din; tumult; disturbance; agitation; trouble; disquiet.
- n. Synonyms Confusion, bustle, uproar.
Wiktionary
- n. A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
- v. obsolete To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
- v. obsolete To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
- v. obsolete To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. disturbance usually in protest
- n. violent agitation
- n. a violent disturbance
Etymologies
- Unknown origin. Perhaps from Old French tremouille ("the hopper of a mill"). (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“The core issue is actually pretty simple: do we want to run the risk of enduring some short term turmoil today as a possible consequence of not raising the debt ceiling?”
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“The government was in turmoil, which made the trip affordable for me.”
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“I've heard many people castigate Kibaki and Odinga, folks saying that our nation is in turmoil so Obama couldn't visit.”
“If we increase the yuan by 20% or 40%, as some people are calling for, many of our factories will shut down and society will be in turmoil," he said.”
“The Philanthropist is the story of uber rich CEO Teddy Rist (James Purefoy) left in turmoil after the death of a child and a messy divorce.”
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“Meanwhile, the media focuses on voter anger about the economy - while rarely making the point that most of that economic turmoil is a result of Republican policies from the previous administration.”
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“With global markets in turmoil, governments around the world have been busy putting out the fires of market-originated crises and laying the groundwork to rebuild in their aftermath.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘turmoil’.
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fight
words for fighting
( open list, randomness )bout, fight, match, smackdown, blue, stoush, battle, clash, fuss, fray, ruckus, tussle and 115 more...
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
fuckup, snafu, fiasco, abortion, miscarriage, implosion, contretemps, imbroglio, brouhaha, melee, kerfuffle, mayhem and 156 more...
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Oily
Words and phrases that have "oil" in them.
oil, oily, olive oil, crude oil, toil, boil, trefoil, foil, roil, broil, coil, soil and 70 more...
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What Do You Mean ?
U Gotta Know These.......
falter, ruddy, flounder, pallid, fumble, founder, labile, titular, tacit, pragmatic, fatalism, jaded and 112 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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fifi
verbs Adj Adv noun
indulge, convene, solve, dissolve, prospect, prospective, allege, resolve, accountable, administration, amid, agenda and 407 more...
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gargoyle, ennui, paradigm, aardvark, verisimilitude, ghoti, tenacity, nescience, guillemet, squonk, maven, moxie and 210 more...
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SAT Vocab
Redundant.
problematic, proclivity, prodigal, prodigious, prodigy, profane, profligate, profound, profusion, proliferation, prolific, prologue and 455 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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Ny New Words
From Barron Wordlist the New Words
lap, lank, languor, languish, lancet, lance, lampoon, larceny, larder, largess, lascivious, latitude and 120 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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Joshee Word List
gash, engross, entail, stoke, ode, vacillate, aspersion, asperity, clan, kith, prospect, nag and 229 more...
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Favorite Words
i love words.
ricochet, clavicle, etymology, equivocate, decoupage, dillydally, effervescent, flimflam, haberdashery, hullabaloo, debacle, juxtapose and 210 more...
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