Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Uproar

Uproar (up"rōr`) , noun

[Dutch oproer; akin to German aufruhr, Danish opror, Swedish uppror; Dutch op up + roeren to stir; akin to Anglo-Saxon hrēran to stir, hrōr stirring, active, German ruhren to stir, Old High German ruoren, Icelandic hrara, Danish rore, Swedish rora. Compare Rearmouse.]

[In verse, sometimes accented on the second syllable.]

Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
But the Jews which believed not,... set all the city on an uproar. — Acts xvii. 5

Uproar , transitive verb

To throw into uproar or confusion. [Obsolete]
Uproar the universal peace. — Shakespeare

Uproar , intransitive verb

To make an uproar. [Rare] — Carlyle