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the sound a crowd makes when order leaves the building and chaos signs the lease
means a loud, confused commotion or uproar, often involving an agitated crowd or a violently disordered state of mind
from From Latin 'tumultus,' an uproar or commotion, built on the verb 'tumere,' to swell — the same swelling impulse behind 'tumor' and 'tumid.' The image is physical: a crowd or a feeling that bulges and bursts past its bounds. It reached English through the same Latin lineage that gave us 'tumultuous.'
- latin roots
- From tumere, to swell, like a rising mob
- sibling word
- Shares ancestry with tumor and tumescent
- legal flavor
- Once a formal charge under riot statutes
- sensory weight
- Implies noise, not just disorder
storming of the bastille — july 14, 1789 paris crowd uprising that sparked the french revolution
rodney king riots — 1992 los angeles uprising after acquittal of officers in king's beating
january 6 capitol riot — 2021 washington dc mob breach of us capitol building during electoral certification