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turmoil 音標拼音: [t'ɚm ,ɔɪl] n. 騷動,混亂 騷動,混亂 turmoil n 1: a violent disturbance; " the convulsions of the stock market" [ synonym: { convulsion}, { turmoil}, { upheaval}] 2: violent agitation [ synonym: { tumult}, { turmoil}] 3: disturbance usually in protest [ synonym: { agitation}, { excitement}, { turmoil}, { upheaval}, { hullabaloo}] Turmoil \ Tur* moil"\, v. i. To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion. [ Obs.] -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] And there I' ll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster]
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.] [ 1913 Webster] It is her fatal misfortune . . . to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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