Disturb

Definition: Disturb

Disturb

Verb

1. Move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought".

2. Change the arrangement or position of.

3. Tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!".

4. Destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading".

5. Damage as if by shaking or jarring; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disturb" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Disturb

Agitation

Agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.

Arrangement

Verb: derange; disarrange, misarrange; displace, misplace; mislay, discompose, disorder; deorganize, discombobulate, disorganize; embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble; shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder; muss; break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.

Change

Recast; reverse; disturb; convert into.

Excitation

Stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.

Agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.

Pain

Displease, annoy, incommode, discompose, trouble, disquiet; faze, feaze, feeze (U.S.); disturb, cross, perplex, molest, tease, tire, irk, vex, mortify, wherret, worry, plague, bother, pester, bore, pother, harass, harry, badger, heckle, bait, beset, infest, persecute, importune.

Crosswords: Disturb

It might disturb Mother. (Strangers on a Train; writing credit: Raymond Chandler; Whitfield Cook)

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry to disturb your pleasant ride. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word by thee, old Capulet, and you, Montague if ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. (Romeo + Juliet; writing credit: Craig Pearce)

Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired. (Commando; writing credit: Joseph Loeb III; Matthew Weisman)

You always disturb evidence with such impunity, Buck? (American Gothic; writing credit: Mariana Reyes; Doris Segu�)

Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and you worries. (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

Disturb the sound of silence. (The Sound Of Silence; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died. (I Am a Rock; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

The business of preaching is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable. (references; author: unknown)

Do Not Disturb Just Married (1972)

Don't Disturb This Groove (performing artist: The System)

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Books

• An Enigmatic Man (Do Not Disturb!) (reference)

• Do Not Disturb (reference)

• Don't Disturb the Neighbors : The US and Democracy in Mexico, 1980-1995 (reference)

• Private Lives: Do Not Disturb (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Do Not Disturb - Afterglow (reference)

• Don't Disturb This Groove (reference)

• Please Do Not Disturb [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Waiting for an opportunity to disturb the peace. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hope I didn't disturb you when I came in. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Wherein one cannot but admire the wisdom of the great Creator, who having given to man foresight, and an ability to lay up for the future, as well as to supply the present necessity, hath made it necessary, that society of man and wife should be more lasting, than of male and female amongst other creatures; that so their industry might be encouraged, and their interest better united, to make provision and lay up goods for their common issue, which uncertain mixture, or easy and frequent solutions of conjugal society would mightily disturb. (Second Treatise of Government)

In case Germany violates in any manner whatever the provisions of Articles 42 and 43, she shall be regarded as committing a hostile act against the Powers signatory of the present Treaty and as calculated to disturb the peace of the world. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Jean Valjean did not attempt to disturb the hand which grasped the collar of his coat.

At my entrance he called aloud to me not to disturb his webs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

But too much acid in the blood (acidosis) can disturb many bodily functions. (references)

When audible to patients, bruit may compromise hearing, disturb sleep, or cause significant psychological distress. (references)

Abnormalities in brain wiring that occur during brain development also may disturb neuronal activity and lead to epilepsy. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hungary

Any 10 or more persons may form an association, provided that it does not commit criminal offenses or disturb the rights of others. (references)

Greece

The Constitution prohibits proselytizing and stipulates that no rite of worship may disturb public order or offend moral principles. (references)

Central African Republic

The Ministry may decline to register, suspend the operations of, or ban any organization that it deems offensive to public morals or likely to disturb the peace. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

According to the Swiss Patent Law of 1954, as amended, the following items cannot be covered by patent protection: surgical, therapy and diagnostic processes for application on humans and animals; inventions liable to disturb law and order and offend "good morals." Nor are patents granted for species of plants and animals and biological processes for their breeding. (references)

Worker Rights

Taiwan

Labor unions may be dissolved if they do not meet certification requirements or if their activities disturb public order. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "disturb": disturb smb. at work ♦ disturb smb.'s privacy ♦ disturb the mind of ♦ disturb the peace ♦ disturb the soul ♦ i am sorry to disturb you. Additional references.

Ending with "disturb": do-not-disturb.

Afrikaans

belemmer (bar, bother, hinder, inhibit, prevent, trouble). (various references)

Albanian

trazoj (agitate, break up, commingle, dash, dismay, distemper, fidget, flitter, flurry, fluster, flutter, harass, Harry, incommode, intermix, jumble, knead, perturb, poke, pother, ruffle, shuffle, stir, turn, vex), shqetësoj (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, break up, concern, denationalize, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distemper, distress, eat, embarrass, fash, flurry, fret, Harrow, Harry, incommode, move, peeve, perturb, plague, pother, preoccupy, ruffle, trouble, vex, worry), ngatërroj (bedevil, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, disorient, disorientate, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, entangle, entrap, flummox, fuddle, garble, hash, immerse, implicate, intricate, involve, jerk off, jumble, lug in, make a hash of cutting, make a mess of, mess about, mistake, mix up, monkey, muddle, muddy, put out, Ravel, snarl, tamper, tie up), çrregulloj (confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, dislocate, disorder, disorganize, downgrade, mess, rumple, tumble, upset). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, embitter, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, muddy, offend, roil, ruffle, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), ‏قاطع (boycott, break away, categorical, chip, conclusive, decisive, definite, disruption, dogmatic, edgy, final, have no truck with, incisive, interrupt, keen, partition, peremptory, positive, sharp, unqualified), ‏عكر (derange, muddle, muddy, roil, trouble, turbid, turbidity), ‏عاق (baffle, balk, block, cramp, delay, derange, detain, deter, dirty, discourage, disloyal, embarrass, encumber, estop, handicap, hinder, hobble, hurt, impede, impious, interrupt, penalize, preclude, prevent, retard, set back, shackle, stifle, thankless, thwart, tie up, trammel, trap, undutiful, ungrateful, unthankful), ‏ضايق (aggrieve, annoy, bully, distress, dog, fret, get in the way, gnaw, grate, grill, harass, harrow, harry, incommode, inconvenience, irk, jar, jolt, molest, nag, persecute, pester, pick, rag, rattle, saddle, torment), ‏أقلق (agitate, beset, concern, disconcert, disquiet, distress, ferret, fret, fuss, hop, molest, obsess, peck, perturb, rile, shake up, spook, torment, trouble, undo, unhinge, unsettle, upset, worry), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), ‏شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle), ‏بعثر (disarrange, disunite, litter, rummage, scatter, shatter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смущавам (become confused, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, flurry, gravel, incommode, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, perturb, put off, put out, rattle, ruffle, throw out, unbalance, violate, wake, wilder), разстройвам (break, crack, defeat, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, impair, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), тревожа (ail, alarm, exercise, fuss, perturb, put about, weigh on, worrit, worry), обезпокоявам (perturb, put out, trouble, upset), местя (move, move about, relocate, remove, shift), безпокоя (agitate, ail, alarm, bother, chivy, discompose, exercise, fash, feeze, gall, inconvenience, molest, pother, put about, vex, worry), повреждам (blemish, damage, derange, endamage, flaw, hurt, ill use, impair, injure, maim, maul, mutilate, ravage, scathe, spoil, strafe, trouble, vitiate). (various references)

Chinese 

驚動 (alarm, alert), 詿 (deceive), �"�"� , �" (to scratch), �"� , 搗 (attack, beat, hull, pound, stir), 干扰 (Disturbance, Disturbed, Disturbing), 嬲 (tease). (various references)

Czech

znepokojovat (annoy, harass, perturb, trouble, worry), znepokojit (agitate, alarm, discompose, disconcert, disquiet, upset), vyrušovat (bother, butt in, distract, intrude, trouble), rušit (butt in, jam, perturb, unsettle), rozrušit (derange, excite, upset), rozèilit (excite, incense, madden, spite), porušit (blemish, break, disobey, infringe, upset, violate, vitiate), narušovat. (various references)

Danish

hindre (bar, bother, hinder, inhibit, prevent, trouble), forstyrre (bother, hinder, trouble). (various references)

Dutch

storen (bar, bother, hinder, inhibit, prevent, trouble), hinderen (bother, hinder, trouble), belemmeren (bar, bother, hamper, hinder, impede, inhibit, obstruct, oppose, prevent, stand in the way of, trouble). (various references)

Esperanto

ĝeni (bother, hinder, trouble). (various references)

Faeroese

órógva (bother, hinder, trouble). (various references)

Farsi 

مزاحم شدن (Annoy, Buttonhole, Obtrude, Perturb), مضطرب ساختن (Disquiet), مشوب کردن , اشفتن (Agitate, Disquiet, Perturb, Shake, Trouble, Upset), بهم زدن (Overthrow, Poach, Poke, Rough, Rouse, Roust, Rummage, Stir, Unmake), برهم زدن (Bash, Coup, Derange, Disarrange, Disband, Disorder, Ruffle, Tousle, Unsettle). (various references)

Finnish

vaivata (bother, give trouble, harass, hinder, inconvenience, trouble, vex, worry). (various references)

French

déranger (disarrange, discompose, disorder, disquiet, disrupt, distress). (various references)

German

stören (annoy, bar, be disturbing, bother, bug, bust up, disrupt, get in the way, harass, heckle, hinder, incommode, inhibit, interfere with, interrupt, invade, jam, mutilate, perturb, prevent, spoil, spoil the effect, stick out, to derange, to disturb, to incommode, to interrupt, to mutilate, to perturb, to trouble, torment, trouble, upset, violate, worry), genieren (be embarrassed, bother, embarrass, hinder, trouble). (various references)

Greek 

ενοχλώ (act up, ail, annoy, badger, bedevil, bother, derange, discommode, fret, get someone's back up, grate on, harass, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infest, irk, irritate, jar on, pester, pother, trouble). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעכור (afflict, befoul, make turbid, trouble), ל�"פריע (cut in, get in the way, hamper, hinder, interfere, interrupt, supervene), ל�"� יע (activate, drive, impel, induce, motivate, prompt, propel, set in motion, stir, urge), לבלבל (bedevil, confound, confuse, disarrange, disconcert, flummox, mix up, muddle, perturb), לטרו�" (annoy, bother, drive away, expel, harass, trouble). (various references)

Hungarian

zavar (abashment, annoy, awkwardness, bafflement, bewilderment, bother, confusion, difficulties, discomfiture, discomposure, disorder, disorientation, disturbance, embarrassment, fermentation, harass, hitch, interfere, jam, mess-up, nonplus, perplexity, perturbation, puzzle, puzzlement, quandary, self-consciousness, shuffling, snarl, to discommode, to disturb, to fluster, to get into sy's hair, to get under one's skin, to incommode, to inconvenience, to put to it), háborgat (bother, incommode, perturb, pester, to bother, to incommode, to perturb, to pester, to queer). (various references)

Indonesian

mengganggu (annoyance, annoying, chicane, harry, irritate, mob, molest, offend, vex, vexatious), menggaduh, membuncahkan, ganggu (annoy). (various references)

Italian

disturbare (annoy, bother, disrupt, hinder, inconvenience, irk, jam, trouble, upset). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, disrupt, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ディスターブ . (various references)

Korean 

교란하십시�" (harass). (various references)

Manx

boirey (aggrieve, annoy, bother, care, confuse, confusion, disconcert, disrupt, disruption, distract, distraction, embarrass, embarrassment, heartache, madden, molestation, niggle, nuisance, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester, preoccupy, put upon, row, strife, trouble, vex, worrier, worry), anveaghey (annoy, discompose, perplex). (various references)

Maya

hub (to disturb). (various references)

Norwegian

forstyrre (intrude). (various references)

Pig Latin

isturbday

Polish

przeszkadzać, krępować. (various references)

Portuguese

incomodar (ail, annoy, bother, discomfort, discommode, disquiet, fidget, fret, harass, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, leech, molest, pester, roil, trouble). (various references)

Romanian

incomoda (bother, derange, discomfort, glut, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, trouble), deranja (annoy, be in the way, bother, come amiss to smb., derange, disarrange, discomfort, discommode, discompose, dislocate, disorder, fidget, hinder, incommode, interrupt, intrude, intrude one's presence on smb., intrude upon, ruffle, spoil, trouble, tumble). (various references)

Russian 

мешать (be in the road, be in the way, come between, estop, get in smb.'s road, get in the way, hamper, head off, incommode, interfere, interfered, interfered with, interrupt, mix, obstruct, oppose, overslaugh, poke, preclude). (various references)

Scottish

buair (annoy, provoke, tempt, vex). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zabrinuti (concern, distress, trouble, worry), uznemiriti (acerbate, alarm, bother, discompose, disconcert, hound, intrude, perturb, pester, put out, put smb. out, trouble, unsettle, upset, vex), uznemiravati (bother, harass, inconvenience, trouble, upset), uzbuditi (affect, excite, stir, stir up, thrill, touch), smetati (annoy, bother, hamper, hinder, impede, inconvenience, interfere with), remetiti (counterwork, discomfit), poremetiti (derange, disarrange, disrupt, unhinge), narušiti (infringe, violate). (various references)

Spanish

molestar (annoy, badger, bar, bedevil, bother, commove, discommode, distract, estop, fag, faze, fret, fuss, harass, hassle, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, inflict, inhibit, intrude, irritate, molest, nettle, persecute, pester, prevent, put about, put out, put upon, tease, trouble, worry), perturbar (agitate, bewilder, distract, faze, mess up, perturb, scramble, throw out, upset), incomodar (bother, hinder, incommode, inconvenience, put out, put upon, trouble), estorbar (bar, be in the way of, bother, defeat, derange, encumber, fetter, gag, get in the way, guard against, hamper, handicap, hinder, impede, inhibit, interfere with, intrude, keep back, muzzle, obstruct, prevent, thwart, tie, upset). (various references)

Swedish

störa (derange, disrupt, faze, fuss about, interfere with, interrupt, intrude, jam, molest, perturb, pervert, worry), oroa (alarm, annoy, concern, discomfort, discommode, discompose, disquiet, distress, fret, irritate, niggle, perturb, perturbate, trouble, unsettle, upset, worry). (various references)

Turkish

aksatmak (bar, bother, cast a damp over, hamper, hamstring, hinder, inhibit, limp, make limp, paralyse, paralyze, prevent, trouble). (various references)

Turkmen 

rahatsyzlandyrmak (alarm, disquiet). (various references)

Ukrainian

розладнувати (circumvent, counterwork, derange, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, frustrate, overset, shatter, unfix, unhinge, unsettle), хвилювати (affect, agitate, amove, appeal, commove, embroil, excite, ferment, fluster, inflame, perturbate, pother, reck, tempest, worry), порушувати хід. (various references)

Welsh

cyffroi (actuate, agitate, arouse, bestir, excite, move, provoke, stir), aflonyddu (agitate, disquiet, grow restless, molest). (various references)

aversa, aversae, aversi, aversum, aversus, avertam, avertantur, avertas, avertat, avertatur, averte, avertebant, avertens, avertent, avertente, avertentem, avertentur, avertere, averterem, averterentur, averteret, averteris, averterit, averterunt, avertes, avertet, avertetur, averti, avertis, avertissem, avertisset, avertisti, avertit, avertite, avertitque, avertuntur, commota, commotae, commotaque, commoti, commotis, commotum, commotus, commoveantur, commoveat, commoveatur, commovebantur, commovebit, commovebitur, commovebo, commovebor, commovebuntur, commovendum, commoventes, commoventur, commoveo, commovere, commoveretur, commoveri, commoverit, commoverunt, commovet, commovi, commovisti, commovit, concitant, concitantem, concitantur, concitasti, concitat, concitata, concitate, concitati, concitatus, concitaverit, concitaverunt, concitavit, concitetur, concito, concutio, conquassata, differo, disturbare, iacta, iactabatur, iactabitis, iactandos, iactantes, iactantibus, iactaret, iactasset, iactat, iactatis, iactaverunt, iacto, inquietari, inquietas, inquietasti, interpellabant, interpellandum, interpellantes, interpellaret, interpellat, interpellaverint, interpellavit, interpellet, molesta, molestat, moram, moras, more, moris, morisque, moro, mose, mota, motae, moti, motio, motu, motum, motus, moveamini, movearis, moveat, moveatur, movebant, movebantur, movebatur, movebit, movebitur, movebo, movebor, movebunt, movebuntur, movemini, movemur, movenda, movens, movent, moventes, moventur, movere, moverem, moverentur, moveret, moveri, moveris, moverit, moverunt, moveruntque, moves, movete, movetur, movissent, movit, peracto, perturbabant, perturbabat, perturbare, perturbatus, sollicita, sollicitabat, sollicitans, turba, turbabatur, turbabis, turbabit, turbabitur, turbabo, turbabuntur, turbamini, turbantes, turbarentur, turbaret, turbari, turbaris, turbas, turbasti, turbastis, turbat, turbata, turbatae, turbati, turbatique, turbato, turbatum, turbatus, turbaverant, turbaverunt, turbavi, turbavit, turbemini, turbetur, turbo, turbore, vexabant, vexabantur, vexabat, vexabatur, vexabit, vexantes, vexare, vexari, vexas, vexasti, vexati, vexatorem, vexatos, vexatur, vexatus, vexaverunt. (various references)

drefan. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "disturb": disturbance, disturbances, disturbed, disturber, disturbers, disturbing, disturbingly, disturbs. (additional references)

Words containing "disturb": undisturbed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Disturb" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dispur, distab, distri, distrib, distrub, distur, disturbe, Dositube, Edisbury. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bruits, turbid.

-2 letters: birds, brits, bruit, burds, burst, dirts, dribs, drubs, duits, durst, turds.

-3 letters: bids, bird, bits, bris, brit, brut, buds, burd, burs, bust, buts, dibs, dirt, dits, drib, drub, dubs, duit, dust, ribs, rids, rubs, rust, ruts, stir, stub, stud, suit, surd, tubs, tuis, turd, urbs, urds.

-4 letters: bid, bis, bit, bud.

+1 letter: disturbs.

+2 letters: absurdist, absurdity, disturbed, disturber, subeditor.

+3 letters: absurdists, brutalised, distribute, disturbers, disturbing, subeditors, turbidites, turbidness.

+4 letters: absurdities, breadfruits, counterbids, distributed, distributee, distributes, distributor, disturbance, dumbwaiters, resubmitted, strikebound, subdirector, subdistrict, subindustry, subordinate, turbidities, undisturbed.

+5 letters: adumbrations, ambidextrous, biquadratics, boatbuilders, destructible, disbursement, disreputable, disreputably, distributary, distributees, distributing, distribution, distributive, distributors, disturbances, disturbingly, drumbeatings, durabilities, filibustered, outbreedings, redistribute, subdirectors, subdistricts, subeditorial, subirrigated, subordinated, subordinates, subordinator, subsidiarity, thunderbirds, turbidnesses.

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