Dictionary entry

Turmoil (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Tur‐moil″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Turmoiled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Turmoiling.] To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.

It is her fatal misfortune... to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction. Spenser.