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Turmoil

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A state of great disorder or uncertainty. uncountable, usually

    "Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells."

  2. 2
    disturbance usually in protest wordnet
  3. 3
    Harassing labor; trouble; disturbance. uncountable, usually

    "And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, / A blessed soul doth in Elysium."

  4. 4
    violent agitation wordnet
  5. 5
    a violent disturbance wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion. intransitive, obsolete

    "some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates"

  2. 2
    To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry. obsolete, transitive

    "It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown. First appears c. 1526. Perhaps from Old French tremouille (“the hopper of a mill”).

Etymology 2

Unknown. First appears c. 1526. Perhaps from Old French tremouille (“the hopper of a mill”).

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