uproar

Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr.[1] Possibly influenced by roar.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌpɹɔː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʌpɹɔːɹ/

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uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)

1. Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
2. Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
3. A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.

• See also Thesaurus:commotion

• get one's bowels in an uproar
• uproarious
• uproarish

uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)

1. (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

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

2. (intransitive) To make an uproar.
   • 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History‎, London: Francis Holden, published 1698, Part II, page 110, note:

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

   • 1824, “Chapter 8”, in Thomas Carlyle, transl., Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels‎, book 4, New York: A.L. Burt, translation of original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published 1839, pages 210–211:

     […] 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.

   • 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity‎, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, page 56:

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

   • 1829, Mason Locke Weems, “Chapter 12”, in The Life of General Francis Marion‎, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, page 106:

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