turmoil (noun)

  • 31mortal coil — noun a) The chaos and confusion of life. [A x5D; does not as a true insect does change from worm to grub, and from grub to his mature form, but simply “shuffles off his mortal coil,” skin, hairs, and leggings all complete, now and then, . He then …

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  • 32hellhole — noun A place of intense hatred, misery, and/or turmoil …

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  • 33rumpus — noun A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. Syn: ruckus, turmoil …

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  • 34bouleversement — noun Complete overthrow; reversal; turmoil …

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  • 35other woman — noun A woman who is romantically involved with a man already in a committed relationship, especially a woman having an affair with a married man Remembering the turmoil she experienced when her father left her mother, she vowed she would never be …

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  • 36bandolero — noun An outlaw or bandit of Mexico. Mexico was torn by revolutionary turmoil, and the eastern border state of Tamaulipas was unable to control the bandoleros who plundered and murdered …

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  • 37unrest — noun a state of rebellious dissatisfaction and agitation in a group of people: civil unrest. ↘a feeling of uneasiness or turmoil …

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  • 38backcloth — noun (C) 1 a painted cloth hung across the back of a stage 2 the conditions or situation in which something happens: Against this backcloth of industrial turmoil, violence was always likely …

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  • 39anarchy — noun conditions are dangerously ripe for anarchy Syn: lawlessness, nihilism, mobocracy, revolution, insurrection, disorder, chaos, mayhem, tumult, turmoil Ant: government, order …

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  • 40bedlam — noun there was bedlam in the stadium Syn: uproar, pandemonium, commotion, mayhem, confusion, disorder, chaos, anarchy, lawlessness; furor, upheaval, hubbub, hoopla, turmoil, riot, ruckus, rumpus, tumult, hullabaloo …

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