uproar

noun

1. 1

   Tumultuous, noisy excitement.

2. 2

   Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.

3. 3

   A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.

   This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.

verb

1. 1

   To throw into uproar or confusion.

   […] had I power, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth.

2. 2

   To make an uproar.

   […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]

   […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.

   When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar, And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,

   Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.

Forms

plural

uproars

past tense

uproared

past participle

uproared

present participle

uproaring

third person singular

uproars