DISTURBED

disturbed, maladjusted

(adjective) emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

disturbed

(adjective) having the place or position changed; “the disturbed books and papers on her desk”; “disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed”

brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged

(adjective) affected with madness or insanity; “a man who had gone mad”

disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried

(adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief; “too upset to say anything”; “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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

disturbed (comparative more disturbed, superlative most disturbed)

Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.

Extremely alarmed; shocked.

Verb

disturbed

simple past tense and past participle of disturb

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Source: Wiktionary


DISTURB

Dis*turb", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disturbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disturbing.] Etym: [OE. desturben, destourben, OF. destorber, desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare to disturb, trouble, turba disorder, tumult, crowd. See Turbid.]

1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority. Burke.

2. To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.

3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.] And disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim. Milton.

Syn.

– To disorder; disquiet; agitate; discompose; molest; perplex; trouble; incommode; ruffle.

Dis*turb", n.

Definition: Disturbance. [Obs.] Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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