turmoil

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A state of great disorder or uncertainty.

   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
   noun

   Harassing labor; trouble; disturbance.

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

3. 3
   verb

   To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

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

4. 4
   verb

   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.

5. 5
   noun

   disturbance usually in protest

6. 6
   noun

   violent agitation

7. 7
   noun

   a violent disturbance

Etymology

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