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uproar

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE public ▪ The cutbacks were almost immediately rescinded after a public uproar . ■ VERB cause ▪ It must have caused an uproar ! ▪ Parliament had been scheduled today to review the new levy, which caused an uproar ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of commotion and noise and confusion [syn: tumult , tumultuousness , garboil ] loud confused noise from many sources [syn: hubbub , brouhaha , katzenjammer ]

Usage examples of uproar.

The stand was in an uproar, for many were still shouting aloud about the buckler and others were screaming with delight over the neat manner in which Sir James had drawn his first blood.

The gate guards were processing a crowd of new workmen in a considerable uproar, letting them through one by one like counted gold coins, to buses waiting beyond the gate.

But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.

United States and England, that the State Department had refused comment, that the President had cancelled a scheduled press conference, and that Congress was in an uproar.

By this time other people, guests and workers of the caravanserai, roused by the uproar, were crowding in at the empty doorway, walking on the fallen door, beginning a clamor of comments and questions.

He made an uproar over this piece of cheating, but the soldiers only laughed at him.

While his majesty was thus discoursing with Jones, a sudden uproar arose in the barn, and as it seems upon this occasion:- the courtesy of these people had by degrees removed all the apprehensions of Partridge, and he was prevailed upon not only to stuff himself with their food, but to taste some of their liquors, which by degress entirely expelled all fear from his composition, and in its stead introduced much more agreeable sensations.

I related the whole affair to the bishop, exaggerating the uproar, making much of the injustice of such proceedings, and railing at a vexatious police daring to molest travellers and to insult the sacred rights of individuals and nations.

They had driven under the elevated so that the uproar of the trains overhead would hide the sounds as all but Gonner transferred to another car.

As soon as we got outside, the mob which the uproar had attracted hooted me and followed me, and no doubt I should have been torn to pieces if I had not escaped into a church, which I left by another door a quarter of an hour later.

And men began springing to their feet and scrambling out of their shelters, and staring around them and waving their hats and shouting congratulation and encouragement, and ducking suddenly as more bullets came whistling in, and from a low rumble the sound rose to distant thunder, and from that to nearer uproar, and Truman and Cranston made a rush for their own herds, ordering the men to side line and hopple instantly, for the surviving horses were excitedly sniffing the air, pawing and snorting, and then there hove in sight up the valley the wiry leaders of the herd, galloping wearily, behind them a dull, dust-hidden, laboring mass, the main body of the Indian prizes swept away at sunrise.

It fought furiously, making frantic plunges at the dogs who dashed in and out to torment and bewilder it while they created the most zestfully excited of uproars.

Through the porthole he could see the jangling racket of blood pumps and oxygen pumps and hear the uproar of the motion Gully Foyle made toward him.

She sat down and wondered if Kuei would be able to visit her now, with all of his house in an uproar.

Het Nkik knew that life was cheap in Mos Eisley, and killing a single Imperial trooper would not cause enough uproar.