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COMMOTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making a noisy disturbance
Synonyms:
commotion; din; ruckus; ruction; rumpus; tumult
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("commotion" is a kind of...):
disturbance (the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commotion"):
ado; bustle; flurry; fuss; hustle; stir (a rapid active commotion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Confused movement
Example:
a commotion of people fought for the exits
Synonyms:
commotion; whirl
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("commotion" is a kind of...):
motion; movement (a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A disorderly outburst or tumult
Example:
they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused
Synonyms:
commotion; disruption; disturbance; flutter; hoo-ha; hoo-hah; hurly burly; kerfuffle; to-do
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("commotion" is a kind of...):
disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "commotion"):
convulsion; turmoil; upheaval (a violent disturbance)
earthquake (a disturbance that is extremely disruptive)
incident (a public disturbance)
splash; stir (a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event)
storm; tempest (a violent commotion or disturbance)
storm center; storm centre (a center of trouble or disturbance)
garboil; tumult; tumultuousness; uproar (a state of commotion and noise and confusion)
Context examples:
As this sounded mysterious to the children, and moreover was like the beginning of a favourite story Agnes used to tell them, introductory to the arrival of a wicked old Fairy in a cloak who hated everybody, it produced some commotion.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
If your birthday falls after July 15, you are not likely to notice the commotion of the January 10 eclipse at all, unless you have natal planets or natal moon within five degrees of 20 degrees of Cancer.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
But almost as quickly as it had arisen, the commotion died away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"You wait here," I said. "I'll see if there's any sign of a commotion."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There were the same people, or at least the same sort of people, the same profusion of champagne, the same many-colored, many-keyed commotion, but I felt an unpleasantness in the air, a pervading harshness that hadn't been there before.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
