garboil
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gar·boil
(gär'boil') 
n. Archaic
Confusion; uproar.
n. Archaic
Confusion; uproar.
[Obsolete French garbouil, from Old French, from Old Italian garbuglio, perhaps from Latin bullīre, to boil.]
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garboil
a confused disordered state: turmoil
She's dead, my queen: Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read the garboils she awaked; at the last, best: see when and where she died. - Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
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