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Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr,[1] as up +‎ roar.

uproar (countable and uncountable, plural uproars)

  1. Tumultuous, noisy excitement. [from 1520s]
  2. Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
  3. A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.

    • 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 8:56 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron‎[1], archived from the original on 29 November 2024:

      This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.

noisy excitement

confused noise

uproar (third-person singular simple present uproars, present participle uproaring, simple past and past participle uproared)

  1. (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
  2. (intransitive) To make an uproar.

    • 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History‎[2], London: Francis Holden, published 1698, Part II, page 110, note:

      […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]

    • 1824, “Chapter 8”, in Thomas Carlyle, transl., Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels‎[3], book 4, New York: A.L. Burt, translation of original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published 1839, pages 210–211:

      […] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.

    • 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity‎[4], London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, page 56:

      When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
      And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,

    • 1829, Mason Locke Weems, “Chapter 12”, in The Life of General Francis Marion‎[5], Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, page 106:

      Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.

to throw into uproar or confusion

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “uproar”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.