turmoil

turmoil
    n 1: a violent disturbance; "the convulsions of the stock
         market" [syn: {convulsion}, {turmoil}, {upheaval}]
    2: violent agitation [syn: {tumult}, {turmoil}]
    3: disturbance usually in protest [syn: {agitation},
       {excitement}, {turmoil}, {upheaval}, {hullabaloo}]
    

Turmoil \Tur*moil"\ (t[^u]r*moil"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Turmoiled} (t[^u]r*moil"d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Turmoiling}.]
   To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry. [Obs.]
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         It is her fatal misfortune . . . to be miserably tossed
         and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.
                                                  --Spenser.
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Turmoil \Tur"moil\ (t[^u]r"moil) sometimes (t[^u]r*moil"), n.
   [Of uncertain origin; perhaps fr. OF. tremouille the hopper
   of a mill, trembler to tremble (cf. E. tremble); influenced
   by E. turn and moil.]
   Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance;
   worrying confusion.
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         And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil,
         A blessed soul doth in Elysium.          --Shak.
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Turmoil \Tur*moil"\, v. i.
   To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion. [Obs.]
   --Milton.
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166 Moby Thesaurus words for "turmoil":
      ado, agitation, ailment, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, anarchy,
      antinomianism, anxiety, anxiousness, arsy-varsiness, bluster,
      bobbery, boil, boiling, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bustle,
      cacophony, chaos, churn, clamor, clutter, commotion, confusion,
      conturbation, criminal syndicalism, discomposure, disorder,
      disorderliness, disorganization, disquiet, disquietude, disruption,
      distress, disturbance, dither, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, dustup,
      ebullience, ebullition, eddy, effervescence, embroilment,
      excitement, fanaticism, farrago, feery-fary, ferment, fermentation,
      fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster, flutteration,
      foment, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fume,
      furor, furore, fury, fuss, hash, hassle, helter-skelter,
      higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, hubbub, hurly-burly, hurry,
      hurry-scurry, hysteron proteron, inquietude, jitteriness, jitters,
      jumble, jumpiness, lather, litter, lynch law, maelstrom, malaise,
      melee, mess, mishmash, misrule, mob law, mob rule, mobocracy, moil,
      nerviness, nervosity, nervousness, nihilism, ochlocracy,
      pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, perturbation, pother,
      primal chaos, racket, rage, rampage, rebellion, restiveness,
      restlessness, revolution, riot, roil, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse,
      rout, row, ruckus, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scramble, seethe,
      seething, shindy, stew, stir, storminess, strife, swirl, swirling,
      syndicalism, tempestuousness, to-do, tohubohu, topsy-turviness,
      topsy-turvydom, trepidation, trepidity, trouble, tumble, tumult,
      tumultuation, tumultuousness, turbidity, turbulence, twitter,
      unease, uneasiness, unholy mess, unrest, unruliness, uproar, upset,
      vortex, welter, whirl, wildness, yeastiness, zeal, zealousness