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turmoil en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈtɜːmɔɪl/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
    • The Taoists developed their philosophy during an extended era of turmoil known as the Warring States period of Chinese history. 2024 January 14, Charles Hugh Smith, Self-Reliance, Taoism and the Warring States:
    • 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. 2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:
  2. (uncountable, usually) Harassing labor; trouble; disturbance.
    • The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
    • And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, / A blessed soul doth in Elysium. c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:

Forms

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turmoils Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

turmoiler

Synonyms

chaos · disorder

Translations (63)

el σάλος (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · pt desordem (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fr chaos (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · mi akaaka (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · la turba (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · bg смут (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fa هرج و مرج (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · cmn 騷亂 /骚乱 (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · mi hūkeri (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ja 騒動 (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fa آشوب (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · it disordine (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · it scompiglio (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · km ចលាចល (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · la tumultus (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · de Aufruhr (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fr désordre (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru бардак (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · kk лаң (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ka ქაოსი (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ka ღელვა (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · es tumulto (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · pt caos (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru сумато́ха (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · es julepe (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ro dezordine (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · it caos (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · de Unordnung (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · es turbulencia (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · es dificultad (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ka შფოთი (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru сму́та (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ar مَعْمَعَة (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fi kaaos (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · el οχλαγωγία (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · pt tumulto (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ro haos (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru потрясе́ние (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru хао́с (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ro incertitudine (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fr tourmente (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · my အရှုပ်အထွေး (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ro tumult (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · el αναταραχή (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · el ταραχή (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · es desorden (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · el αναβρασμός (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fr tumulte (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ota قارش (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ja 混乱 (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru смяте́ние (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru ха́ос (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fi myllerrys (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · fi sekasorto (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · de Tumult (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · bg бъркотия (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ka ალიაქოთი (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ru беспоря́док (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · de Unruhe (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · vi sự náo động (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · kk дүрбелең (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · ga suaitheadh (a state of great disorder or uncertainty) · kk бүліншілік (a state of great disorder or uncertainty)

turmoil en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈtɜːmɔɪl/ (UK)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
    • some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates 1642 April, An Apology against a Pamphlet Call’d A Modest Confutation of the Animadversions upon the Remonstrant against Smectymnuus, London: […] E[dward] G[riffin] for Iohn Rothwell, […], →OCLC:
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
    • It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction. 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:

Forms

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turmoils Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
turmoiled Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
turmoiled Tense=Past lexicographic
turmoiling Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic