different between broil vs uproar
broil
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???l/
- Rhymes: -??l
Etymology 1
Middle English broillen, brulen (“to broil, cook”), from Anglo-Norman bruiller, broiller (“to broil, roast”), Old French brusler, bruller (“to broil, roast, char”), a blend of two Old French verbs:
- bruir (“to burn”), from Frankish *br?jan (“to burn, scald”)
- usler (“to scorch”), from Latin ustul? (“to scorch”)
Verb
broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)
- (transitive, Canada, US) To cook by direct, radiant heat.
- Synonym: (British) grill
- (transitive, Canada, US) To expose to great heat.
- (intransitive, Canada, US) To be exposed to great heat.
Translations
Noun
broil (plural broils)
- Food prepared by broiling.
Etymology 2
Middle English broilen (“to quarrel, present in disorder”), from Anglo-Norman broiller (“to mix up”), from Vulgar Latin *brodicul?re (“to jumble together”) from *brodum (“broth, stew”), from Frankish *broþ (“broth”), from Proto-Germanic *bruþ? (“broth”). Doublet of broth.
Verb
broil (third-person singular simple present broils, present participle broiling, simple past and past participle broiled)
- (transitive) To cause a rowdy disturbance; embroil.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To brawl.
Noun
broil (plural broils)
- (archaic) A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2
- So, I am safe emerged from these broils! / Amid the wreck of thousands I am whole
- 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 27
- "Away with this prating dotard," said Front-de Boeuf, "lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. It will be a new thing to the saints in Torquilstone to hear aves and paters; they have not been so honoured, I trow, since they were cut out of stone."
- 1840, Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (volume 8, page 382)
- Since the provinces declared their independence, broils and squabblings of one sort and another have greatly retarded the advancement which they might otherwise have made.
- 1756, Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
- I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act I, verses 1-2
Synonyms
- skirmish
Translations
Anagrams
- LIBOR, libro-
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uproar
English
Etymology
Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /??p???/
- (US) IPA(key): /??p????/
Noun
uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)
- Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
- Loud confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- A loud protest, controversy, outrage
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:commotion
Derived terms
- uproarious
- uproarish
Translations
Verb
uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)
- (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- […] had I power, I should
- Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
- Uproar the universal peace, confound
- All unity on earth.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 3,[1]
- (intransitive) To make an uproar.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
- […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
- 1824, Thomas Carlyle (translator), Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, New York: A.L. Burt, 1839, Book 4, Chapter 8, pp. 210-211,[3]
- […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
- 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, p. 56,[4]
- When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
- And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,
- 1829, Mason Locke Weems, The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, Chapter 12, p. 106,[5]
- Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.
- 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, 1698, Part II, p. 110, note,[2]
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