tumult• All the coolant hit the engineblock in a tumult of steam.• Sheilaconfessed that she spends most of her time in a tumult of anger and disbelief.• His voice is shaken by the tumult of his feelings ... Outside some one touches you ... with a light greeting.• Brown has kept the tumult at bay.• Theirs is a complex and lifelongfriendship, even when the tumult of the times separates them for many years.• The tumult died away, and presently Moon-Watcher could hear the sound of a body being dragged over rocks.• The tumult of war had undoubtedly touched Leonard, though his immediate family were spared its directhorrors.• If it had been incredible before it was more so now, this whirling tumult in her blood.