Synonyms:
tumult, tumultuousness, uproar, garboil
Meaning: a state of commotion and noise and confusion
Usage examples
The tumult had ceased.
The tumult and the scuffle were at an end.
The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this conversation.
The dark hurry and tumult, the stress and vehemence of the battle rushed in and overwhelmed them.
He had to look twice, however, before he could be sure that that was his boy in the middle of the tumult.
All tramped, kicked, plunged, shouldered, and jostled, doing as little service with as much tumult as could well be imagined.
And a fierce quarrel fell upon them, and violent tumult, for that they had sailed and left behind the bravest of their comrades.
There was an angry tumult, and the interrupter would have fared badly, but for Silas Finn holding up his hand and imploring silence.
I shrank from amid them, and, swiftly, by a circuitous path, reached and entered the city. Here all was the wildest tumult and contention.
And when the tumult was over the sea had won, and over the broken remnants of those red cliffs the armies of Slid marched on and up the long green valley.