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disturbed

[ UK /dɪstˈɜːbd/ ]
[ US /dɪˈstɝbd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships
  2. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief
    too upset to say anything
    worried parents
    a worried frown
    spent many disquieted moments
    distressed about her son's leaving home
    one last worried check of the sleeping children
    lapsed into disturbed sleep
  3. affected with madness or insanity
    a man who had gone mad
  4. having the place or position changed
    the disturbed books and papers on her desk
    disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed
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How To Use disturbed In A Sentence

  • To equate Tim McVeigh as a patriot is the mark of a sick and disturbed mind. Think Progress » Fox News host Julie Banderas
  • 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!
  • They are best left undisturbed where they will naturalise and multiply. Times, Sunday Times
  • At their recent meeting the Parish Council were disturbed to find that both these bills have increased substantially.
  • She left strict instructions that she was not to be disturbed.
  • A private company has been handed the task of taking Scotland's most disruptive and disturbed state school pupils and educating them away from home.
  • He'd placed his notes in the brown envelope. They hadn't been disturbed.
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