Turmoil vs Bedlam - What's the difference?
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A state of great disorder or uncertainty.
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Harassing labour; trouble; disturbance.
* Shakespeare
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, title= (obsolete) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
(obsolete) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
* Spenser
A place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.
* 1872 : , The Complete Works of John Bunyan , p 133
* 2002 : Mark L. Friedman, ''Everyday Crisis Management, p 134
(obsolete) An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A lunatic asylum; a madhouse.
* 1720 : , The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson , p 43
As nouns the difference between turmoil and bedlam
is that turmoil is a state of great disorder or uncertainty while bedlam is a place or situation of chaotic uproar, and where confusion prevails.As a verb turmoil
is to be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.turmoil
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil , / A blessed soul doth in Elysium.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Synonyms
* chaos, disorderVerb
(en verb)- (Milton)
- It is her fatal misfortune to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Some of the wards were veritable "bedlams ," and dis-charged patients have told of abuses practiced in them of which the mere recital causes a shudder.
- The outside of the Hyatt was bedlam . There was a group of more than a hundred injured people on the circular drive in front of the hotel.
- Let's get the bedlam to lead him.
- But if any man should profess to believe these things, and yet allow himself in any known wickedness, such a one should be put into bedlam.