uproar
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
uproar
- Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
- Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
- A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.
- See also Thesaurus:commotion
- French: clameur
- German: Aufruhr
- Italian: baraonda, clamore, fragore, baccano, bolgia, sobbuglio
- Portuguese: rebuliço
- Russian: волне́ние
- Spanish: bullicio, clamor, fragor, escandalera (colloquial)
uproar (uproars, present participle uproaring; simple past and past participle uproared)
- (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- […] had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.
- (intransitive) To make an uproar.
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