ruction
UK/ˈɹʌk.ʃən/
ruction noun: a noisy quarrel or fight.
Noun
ruction (plural ructions)
- A noisy quarrel or fight.
- “If you do want to go home, here’s your whip. Don’t fall off. Say to her you wanted it, or there might be ructions.”1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter XII, in The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I (Cambridge), page 144
- She could see there were going to be ructions. Sure enough there'd be a scene between them, when Sebastian found what Tilly had been up to.1947, Christopher Sheridan, Bread and circuses, page 52
- Synonyms:
- brawl, disturbance, fracas, row, uproar, argument, argy-bargy, altercation, contention, barney
ruction meaning in Tamil and Malayalam
ruction in Tamil
- பேரிரைச்சல்
ruction in Malayalam
- commotion, disturbance, noise
- ബഹളം, കലക്കം, കലക്കൽ, കലക്ക്, കുഴപ്പം, ശല്യം
Examples of ruction in a sentence
- While the U.S. government had a huge fiscal deficit, similar to Greece's, the financial ructions emanating from Athens sent nervous money flocking to the United States, not away.2013, Alan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, ..., page 381:
- Dad drove and Mum commented on Dad's driving; not too much, but just enough to occasionally lead to ructions.2014, Murray C. Morison, Time Sphere:
- […]the geopolitical ructions caused by Donald Trump's muscle-flexing in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin's military aggression and tense economic relations with China.2026 June 13, Patrick Jenkins, “Lunch with the FT: Thomas Buberl”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd....
Synonyms of ruction
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Forms of ruction
| plural | ructions |
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Origin of ruction
1825, of unknown origin, possibly from eruption or insurrection. Possibly related to the Irish insurrection of 1798.
Words that rhyme with ruction
- induction
- reduction
- construction
- instruction
- deduction
- suction
- transduction
- introduction
- traduction
- conduction
- destruction
- eduction
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Questions about ruction
- What does ruction mean?
- Ruction means a noisy quarrel or fight.
- What is ruction in Tamil?
- Ruction in Tamil is பேரிரைச்சல். See Ruction meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use ruction in a sentence?
- While the U.S. government had a huge fiscal deficit, similar to Greece's, the financial ructions emanating from Athens sent nervous money flocking to the United States, not away.
- What part of speech is ruction?
- Ruction is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ruction?
- Ruction is pronounced /ˈɹʌk.ʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ruction?
- The plural of ruction is ructions.
Words near ruction in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ruction (page history and authors); ruction (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ruction (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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