turmoil

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)A state of great disorder or uncertainty.

   “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.”

2. (uncountable, usually)Harassing labor; trouble; disturbance.

   “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.”

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.

   “some notable sophister lies sweating and turmoiling under the inevitable and merciless delimmas of Socrates”

2. (obsolete, transitive)To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

   “It is her fatal misfortune […] to be thus miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.”