An insurrection or rising of the populace; a serious tumult, commotion, or outbreak of disorder among the people or a body of persons. Also…

(with a and plural) A disturbance, agitation; a tumult, rising, insurrection.

Commotion or agitation, physical, social, or political; disturbance, tumult. (With or without a and plural.) Obsolete.

figurative; esp. a political or social upheaval which sweeps away the old order of things.