[ US /dɪˈstɝb/ ]
[ UK /dɪstˈɜːb/ ]
VERB
  1. move deeply
    This book upset me
    A troubling thought
  2. tamper with
    Don't touch my CDs!
  3. destroy the peace or tranquility of
    Don't interrupt me when I'm reading
  4. change the arrangement or position of
  5. damage as if by shaking or jarring
    Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!
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How To Use disturb In A Sentence

  • Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!
  • To equate Tim McVeigh as a patriot is the mark of a sick and disturbed mind. Think Progress » Fox News host Julie Banderas
  • The calced Augustinians also made their elections -- but not so quickly that we could avoid sending to them to remind them not to allow the disturbances of other times to occur in their chapter -- by having made them beforehand through their devotion to the outgoing provincial, who managed the succession for another as worthy as he. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 24 of 55 1630-34 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
  • The earth was rich with undisturbed deposits of leaf mould and beech mast. Times, Sunday Times
  • But one day he disturbed her privacy and barged into her room, presumably to force more work on her, while she had it out.
  • The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
  • I am honestly disturbed by last Monday's shooting of the booter on the city's South Side. The Parking Ticket Geek: Don't Shoot The Messenger: Take Action!
  • Women who have a history of early-onset premenstrual mood disturbances and dysmenorrhea are more likely to experience an improvement in their premenstrual mood.
  • But physical disturbances from outside the embryo can have the same effect.
  • It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
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