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ructions

ructions is the plural of ruction.

Meaning of ruction

Noun

ruction (plural ructions)

  1. 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

Questions about ructions

What is ructions the plural of?
Ructions is the plural of ruction.

Words near ructions in the dictionary

  1. Rucphen
  2. rucs
  3. ructation
  4. ructations
  5. ruction
  6. ructions
  7. ructious
  8. Rucuyen
  9. rud
  10. Rud syndrome
  11. Ruda

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