disturb
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
disturb/dɪˈstɜːb/
▶verb
- 1 interfere with the normal arrangement or functioning of.
- 2 interrupt the sleep, relaxation, or privacy of.
- 3 make anxious.
– derivatives
disturber noun,
disturbing adjective,
disturbingly adverb.
disturber noun,
disturbing adjective,
disturbingly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. destourber, from L. disturbare, from dis- ‘utterly’ + turbare ‘disturb’.
'disturb' also found in these Oxford entries:
affray
- agitate
- alarm
- ataraxy
- bioturbation
- boat
- bother
- desynchronize
- discompose
- disconcert
- discountenance
- disjoint
- dislocate
- disrupt
- faze
- fuss
- perturb
- pilot bird
- riffle
- rupture
- unsettle
- upset
- vex
- worry
