Usually means: Disorder and confusion; intense disturbance.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. turmoil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. turmoil: Merriam-Webster
  3. turmoil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. turmoil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. turmoil: Collins English Dictionary
  6. turmoil: Vocabulary.com
  7. Turmoil, turmoil: Wordnik
  8. turmoil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. turmoil: Wiktionary
  10. turmoil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. turmoil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. turmoil: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. turmoil: Dictionary.com
  14. turmoil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. turmoil: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Turmoil (video game), Turmoil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Turmoil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. turmoil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. turmoil: Rhymezone
  20. turmoil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. turmoil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. turmoil: FreeDictionary.org
  23. turmoil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. turmoil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turmoil: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turmoil: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. turmoil: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See turmoiling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
noun:  Harassing labor; trouble; disturbance.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

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