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The act of making a noisy disturbance
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Word definitions for ruction in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"disturbance," 1825, dialectal or colloquial, of unknown origin. Perhaps from eruption or an altered shortening of insurrection .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ruction \Ruc"tion\, n. An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: commotion , din , ruckus , rumpus , tumult ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A noisy quarrel or fight.
Usage examples of ruction.
We were happy with one another as birds of the same nest, till the ruction came on betwixt the black and the white angels.
And doing my work well, the innate justice of the men, assisted by their wholesome dislike for a clawing and rending wild-cat ruction, soon led them to give over their hectoring.
This second murder would cause enough ruction without her adding to it.
After that Frances had wandered the Middle East and the ructions she caused were a powerful factor in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism.
The skewbald Cappadocian mistook that for a signal to exert himself and for a minute there were ructions while his master reined him in.
She wore her blue petticoat and her brown shawl whin she went away this morning, and I always expect ructions whin she puts on that shuit of clothes.
In that kind of climate it would have caused endless complications and ructions for UNSA to be seen as giving official backing to a relatively unheard-of free-lancer, and Caldwell was enough of a politician to stay out of it.
They sho did git mad, but nobody seemed to know who started that ruction.
After that Frances had wandered the Middle East and the ructions she caused were a powerful factor in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism.