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noun
- 1. a disturbance or quarrel: informal "she acted as if there'd been no earlier ruction"
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1. : a noisy fight. 2. : disturbance, uproar. Did you know? English offers up a scramble of colorful words for what can happen when tempers spill over. For example, we have melee, fracas, donnybrook, ruckus, and one especially for baseball fans, rhubarb. Ruction is rarer than most of these.
Ruction definition: a disturbance, quarrel, or row.. See examples of RUCTION used in a sentence.
a noisy argument or angry complaint: There'll be ructions if I'm not home by midnight. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Arguments & disagreements. argument. argy-bargy. be (on) non-speakers idiom. belligerence. bickering. blow (someone/something) up. bust up. clash. conflict. contentiousness. contretemps. ding-dong. dispute. dust-up.
the act of making a noisy disturbance.
ruction in British English. (ˈrʌkʃən ) noun informal. 1. an uproar; noisy or quarrelsome disturbance. 2. (plural) a violent and unpleasant row; trouble. there'll be ructions when she finds out. Collins English Dictionary.
nouninformal. an uproar; noisy or quarrelsome disturbance. (plural) a violent and unpleasant row; trouble: there'll be ructions when she finds out. Origin of ruction. 1. C19: perhaps changed from insurrection.
a noisy argument or angry complaint: There'll be ructions if I'm not home by midnight. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Arguments & disagreements. argument. argy-bargy. be (on) non-speakersidiom. belligerence. bickering. blow (someone/something) up. bust up. clash. conflict. contentiousness. contretemps. ding-dong. dispute. dust-up.
