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garboil

  (gär'boil') pronunciation
n. Archaic.

Confusion; uproar.

[Obsolete French garbouil, from Old French, from Old Italian garbuglio, perhaps from Latin bullīre, to boil.]


 
 
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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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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a state of commotion and noise and confusion
  Synonyms: tumult, tumultuousness, uproar


 
 

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