turmoil
/ˈtɜːmɔɪl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Oleg Blokhin's side lost the talismanic Andriy Shevchenko to the substitutes' bench because of a knee injury but still showed enough to put England through real turmoil in spells."
- "The Taoists developed their philosophy during an extended era of turmoil known as the Warring States period of Chinese history."
- "And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, / A blessed soul doth in Elysium."
- "The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one."
- "some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates"
- "It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈtɜːmɔɪl/