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单词 tumult
释义
tumult
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If a principal steps into a classroom and is greeted by a tumult of voices, with the teacher shouting for his kids' attention, she will not be pleased. A tumult is a state of noisy confusion.
Very often a crowd of people will cause a tumult. But your mind can also be in tumult, when you're confused and overwhelmed by strong emotions. If you want an adjective to describe these types of bewildering situations, use tumultuous. Tumult is from the Latin tumultus "an uproar," which is related to the Latin verb tumēre "to be excited."
WORD FAMILY
tumult: tumults, tumultuous+/tumultuous: tumultuously, tumultuousness
USAGE EXAMPLES
Is it maturity — to endure, to survive long stretches of emotional tumult on moxie and sojourns to the gym?
Salon(Dec 25, 2016)
That began to change, however slowly, in the 1960s and ’70s, amid the tumult of the civil rights and feminist movements.
New York Times(Dec 16, 2016)
It is also a side of soccer he fears is increasingly being lost in the sport’s thirst for tumult.
New York Times(Dec 16, 2016)
1n a state of commotion and noise and confusion
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
garboil, tumultuousness, uproar
combustion
a state of violent disturbance and excitement
commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do
a disorderly outburst or tumult
2n violent agitation
Syn|Hyper
turmoil
agitation
the feeling of being agitated; not calm
3n the act of making a noisy disturbance
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
commotion, din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus
ado, bustle, flurry, fuss, hustle, stir
a rapid active commotion
disturbance
the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion
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