uproar

Etymology

Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr. Possibly influenced by roar.

noun

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

verb

1. (transitive) To throw into uproar or confusion.
2. (intransitive) To make an uproar.
   […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […] 1661, William Caton, The Abridgment of Eusebius Pamphilius’s Ecclesiastical History, London: Francis Holden, published 1698, Part II, page 110, note
   […] 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. 1824, “Chapter 8”, in Thomas Carlyle, transl., Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels, book 4, New York: A.L. Burt, translation of original by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, published 1839, pages 210–211
   When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar, And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore, 1828, Robert Montgomery, The Omnipresence of the Deity, London: Samuel Maunder, Part II, page 56
   Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage. 1829, Mason Locke Weems, “Chapter 12”, in The Life of General Francis Marion, Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, page 106