noun
- A violent disturbance.
- usage: "the convulsions of the stock market"
- synonyms: convulsion, upheaval
- Violent agitation.
- synonyms: tumult
- Disturbance usually in protest.
- synonyms: agitation, excitement, upheaval, hullabaloo
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