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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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ruction
English
Etymology
1825, of unknown origin, possibly from eruption or insurrection. Possibly related to the Irish insurrection of 1798.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /???k.??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
Noun
ruction (plural ructions)
- A noisy quarrel or fight.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 131]:
- “If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions.”
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XII [Uniform ed., p. 131]:
Synonyms
- (noisy quarrel): brawl, disturbance, fracas, row, uproar
Related terms
- ruckus
Translations
References
- ruction at OneLook Dictionary Search
- ruction in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- courtin', in court
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