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US
/dɪˈstɝb/
]
[ UK /dɪstˈɜːb/ ]
[ UK /dɪstˈɜːb/ ]
VERB
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move deeply
This book upset me
A troubling thought -
tamper with
Don't touch my CDs! -
destroy the peace or tranquility of
Don't interrupt me when I'm reading - change the arrangement or position of
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damage as if by shaking or jarring
Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!
How To Use disturb In A Sentence
- I'm sorry to disturb you, but can I talk to you for a moment?
- 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.