to disturb
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2.5
- verb
- /dɪˈstɜrb/
:
perturbar
- To this day, I am disturbed by metallic tunes coming out of ice-cream trucks.
- emotionally disturbed
- psychologically disturbed
- seriously disturbed
They were just completely disturbed by it.
- They were just completely disturbed by it.
- And think about this, this whole kind of, it disturbs me.
- And this so much disturbed me.
- And something happened there that I observed that I don't know, it just disturbed me a little bit.
- For example, you need justice to stay out of trouble so that you won't be worried and disturbed by fears of getting caught.
- Like, I was in there just absolutely losing my mind, you know, And you're still disturbed by it.
- Get really disturbed, because when we're disturbed, we move.
- Um, I went in with low expectations and I, I left further disturbed. Yeah, there's like
- The Christian right would be on their knees lighting fires because they were so disturbed.
- Everything about it should disturb every single American and every single pro MAGA guy.
- Was deeply disturbed when I told her and I thought she believed me and I think she did.
Examples
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The man was emotionally disturbed.
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Many people were disturbed by Darwin's naturalism.
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And I was deeply disturbed by what I saw.
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Was deeply disturbed when I told her and I thought she believed me and I think she did.
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That disturbs me and that I feel very much opposed to.
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"What did she say?" Josie asked him again and was disturbed by the tired look he gave her.
Fiction book (1990) -
And something happened there that I observed that I don't know, it just disturbed me a little bit.
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In 2012, a kindergartener in the Davis School District brought home a library book that disturbed her mother.
Academic text (2015) -
I am still, as a Jew, disturbed by this mob's reaction to the word anti-Semitism.
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The news report about the accident really disturbed her and kept her awake all night.
Synonyms
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1.0
To make someone feel nervous or upset about possible problems
∞
1.0
To annoy or disturb someone
362
1.0
Make someone feel sad or worried
174
1.8
To cause someone worry or bother
133
1.9
To make someone feel afraid or worried about possible danger
64
5.5
To make someone feel shocked and very upset by something cruel or wrong
42
4.8
To make people feel strongly excited or upset
41
4.2
To upset someone strongly and change how they feel
37
4.4
Make someone feel shocked or worried by something unexpected
20
6.3
To make someone feel nervous and less confident
7
7.1
To make someone feel uncomfortable or embarrassed
7
4.9
To make someone feel worried or uneasy
7
7.0
To make someone feel worried or uneasy
1
4.3
To make someone feel uneasy or anxious
1
7.3
To make someone feel worried or uneasy
1
9.1
To make someone feel nervous
1
8.4
To make someone feel uncomfortable, confused, or embarrassed
1
9.9
To make someone feel worried or uneasy
Make someone feel upset and unable to think clearly
To disturb people or things
Antonyms
How Disturbing
Surface Forms
Morphology
disturb = dis + turb
The productive prefix 'dis-' signals reversal/negation, but the root 'turb' is not a standalone English word, so the meaning can be partly inferred but not fully derived by average learners.
Etymology
Disturb comes from dis- 'apart' and turbare 'to upset or confuse', so it was used for upsetting a calm state. Think of a still pond hit by a stone; the waves show how something can deeply disturb a person emotionally.