Both Uses
tumult
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- Some of them heard an anonymous announcer describing the tumultuous damage by telephone from the roof of radio station KGU in Honolulu.†
Chpt 3. *
- On the night of July 4, the nation's capital was a tumult of the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air.†
Chpt 16. *
Definitions:
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(1)
(tumult as in: couldn't hear over the tumult) loud noise -- usually created by an unrestrained crowd or some kind of confusion
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(2)
(tumult as in: tumult in financial markets) confusion or disorder
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)