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Disturbed   /dɪstˈərbd/   Listen
Disturbed

adjective
1.
Having the place or position changed.  "Disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed"
2.
Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.  Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried.  "Spent many disquieted moments" , "Distressed about her son's leaving home" , "Lapsed into disturbed sleep" , "Worried parents" , "A worried frown" , "One last worried check of the sleeping children"
3.
Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships.  Synonym: maladjusted.
4.
Affected with madness or insanity.  Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged.


Disturb

verb
(past & past part. disturbed; pres. part. disturbing)
1.
Move deeply.  Synonyms: trouble, upset.  "A troubling thought"
2.
Change the arrangement or position of.  Synonyms: agitate, commove, raise up, shake up, stir up, vex.
3.
Tamper with.  Synonym: touch.
4.
Destroy the peace or tranquility of.  Synonym: interrupt.
5.
Damage as if by shaking or jarring.



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"Disturbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the streets and in the theatres, hotels and restaurants,—soldiers on leave from the various camps. But we were more inclined to notice the tens of thousands of physically fit men walking about in civilian clothes. Nobody seemed particularly disturbed about the war. Kitchener was raising his army, and "the Navy, thank God! was in excellent shape. Just wait till the Spring, and Emperor Bill would get his bumps. We are willing to go if they need us but not till they do. ...
— On the Fringe of the Great Fight • George G. Nasmith
... even longer than the days. Sleep, when it comes, brings no relief; it is rather a feverish stupor, broken and disturbed by frightful nightmares. Last night, however, overcome by fatigue, I managed to rest ...
— The Survivors of the Chancellor • Jules Verne
... the rapacious demands of that sort of people, or that others are permitted to partake in the objects they would engross, revenge and envy soon fill up the craving void that is left in their avarice. Confounded by the complication of distempered passions, their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed,—to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain. They find, on all sides, bounds to their unprincipled ambition in any fixed order of things; but in the fog and haze of confusion all is enlarged, ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. III. (of 12) • Edmund Burke
... as if one kiss would be more than she could bear. She was standing by the pantry window that opened upon the garden, rolling out pie-crust, and didn't like to be disturbed. She was a very good woman, but she never ...
— The Twin Cousins • Sophie May
... father, will you?" continued their Aunt Martha, anxiously. "You know the doctor said he must not be disturbed ...
— The Rover Boys in Business • Arthur M. Winfield


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