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Disturbance   /dɪstˈərbəns/   Listen
Disturbance

noun
1.
Activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption.  Synonym: perturbation.  "He looked around for the source of the disturbance" , "There was a disturbance of neural function"
2.
An unhappy and worried mental state.  Synonyms: perturbation, upset.  "She didn't realize the upset she caused me"
3.
A disorderly outburst or tumult.  Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do.
4.
A noisy fight.  Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle.
5.
The act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion.
6.
(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness.  Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder.
7.
Electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication.  Synonyms: interference, noise.



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"Disturbance" Quotes from Famous Books



... concerned to consider well before they became overt traitors by levying war against the Federal government; that I should regard them as public enemies at the first overt act and use the utmost vigor against them; and that after suppressing any disturbance they might create, my first duty would be to arrest the judge and himself and hand them over to the United States courts to be tried for treason. I likewise expressed my surprise that in a matter which was avowedly an undisguised attempt to bring the State authorities into open conflict with the ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox
... of Duncan's visit, and with a shrewd woman's wit she guessed that Barbara's disturbance of mind was in some way ...
— A Captain in the Ranks - A Romance of Affairs • George Cary Eggleston
... ran instantly through the crowd. The disturbance caused by it was so great that the chief judge rose to his feet, and the officers came into the ...
— Stories by Foreign Authors: Spanish • Various
... made for carrying the servants to the cemetery, and, despite the universal disturbance consequent upon these events, these plans were adhered to. Sweetwater watched them all ride away in ...
— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green
... to see them march away. Plymouth was afterwards changed for Portsmouth in consequence of their good behaviour on the route. Worcester[41] met many of them drunk at Brentford, crying out, 'God save Queen Caroline!' There was some disturbance last night in consequence of the mob assembling round the King's mews, where the rest of the battalion that had marched ...
— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville


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