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Tumult vs Caterwauling - What's the difference?

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Tumult is a related term of caterwauling.


As nouns the difference between tumult and caterwauling

is that tumult is tumult, ruckus, row while caterwauling is a sound that caterwauls.

As a verb caterwauling is

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tumult

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
  • Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
    • the tumult of the elements
    the tumult of the spirits or passions
  • A riot or uprising.

    • Related terms

    * tumultuous

    Synonyms

    * uproar * ruckus

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
    • Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt. — Milton.
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    caterwauling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sound that caterwauls.
  • * Eleanor H. Porter, Oh, Money! Money!
    • Now, I like a good tune what is a tune; but them caterwaulings and dirges that that chap Gray plays on that fiddle of his—gorry, Mr. Smith, I'd rather hear the old barn door at home squeak any day.