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garboil

/ˈɡɑː(ɹ)bɔɪl/

garboil noun: disorder; uproar.

Noun

garboil (countable and uncountable, plural garboils)

  1. (archaic) Disorder; uproar.
    • With greate vproares & garboile shal there bee arisinges of nacion against nacion & royalme against royalme.1548, Nicholas Udall, transl., The First Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Luke 21, page clxv
    • She’s dead, my queen:
      Look here, and at thy sovereign leisure read
      The garboils she awaked; at the last, best:
      See when and where she died.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

garboil meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

garboil in Tamil

குழப்பம்

garboil in Urdu

ہڑ بونگ, الٹا پلٹی

garboil in Bengali

বিশৃঙ্খলা, শোরগোল

Forms of garboil

pluralgarboils

Origin of garboil

From Old French garbouil, connected with Latin bullire (“to boil”).

Questions about garboil

What does garboil mean?
Garboil means disorder; uproar.
What is garboil in Tamil?
Garboil in Tamil is குழப்பம். See Garboil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is garboil?
Garboil is a noun.
How do you pronounce garboil?
Garboil is pronounced /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)bɔɪl/.
What is the plural of garboil?
The plural of garboil is garboils.

Words near garboil in the dictionary

  1. garboard
  2. garboard strake
  3. garboard strakes
  4. garboards
  5. Garboesque
  6. garboil
  7. garboils
  8. garbological
  9. garbologically
  10. garbologist
  11. garbologists

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: garboil (page history and authors); garboil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garboil (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); garboil (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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