TURMOIL

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion. And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Shak.

2.
v.

To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry. [Obs.] It is her fatal misfortune . . . to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction. Spenser.

3.
v.

To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion. [Obs.] Milton.

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