1
as in to bother
to trouble the mind of; to make uneasy
all that talk of war disturbed us
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2
as in to remove
to change the place or position of
the items on her desk had been disturbed by someone
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3
as in to disrupt
to undo the proper order or arrangement of
her careful filing system is sure to be disturbed during the move
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4
as in to worry
to thrust oneself upon (another) without invitation
sorry to disturb you while you're working
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5
as in to weigh
to cause discomfort to or trouble for
please do not disturb yourself—I'll get my own drink
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Recent Examples of disturb
The property served as both recording hub and the center of disturbing allegations that have long shadowed Kelly’s career.
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Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 14 Oct. 2025
This ensures smooth energy transfer without disturbing the lake’s ecosystem.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Wasps will become aggravated if their nest is disturbed, so it's not recommended to knock down the nest.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Sarah Withers, a parent of three children in the district and a special education teacher, said she was concerned converting Les Paul Middle School into a K-8 STEM school may disturb special education students.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 14 Oct. 2025
This ensures smooth energy transfer without disturbing the lake’s ecosystem.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2025
Wasps will become aggravated if their nest is disturbed, so it's not recommended to knock down the nest.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Sarah Withers, a parent of three children in the district and a special education teacher, said she was concerned converting Les Paul Middle School into a K-8 STEM school may disturb special education students.
—Alec Johnson, jsonline.com, 10 Oct. 2025
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Not the kind of thrift store that’s actually thrifty, but the kind of thrift store that doesn’t have any price tags because the people who can afford to shop there don’t need to bother themselves with price tags.—
Lex Goldstein,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Being a double Viking with Swedish and Norman blood on each side of my family, the cold never bothered me.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Oct. 2025
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But the lack of transparency and due process are similar, and there are few to no guarantees of the safety of people whom ICE agents remove, often without identifying themselves, and move around without notifying the family or lawyers of the detained.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Oct. 2025
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Slowly but surely, the legal obstacles to taking games overseas have been removed over the past few years.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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He was also accused of disrupting a second informational table hosted by a student group, according to Illinois State University Police.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
20 Oct. 2025
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Kathryn Palmer The shutdown unfortunately disrupted my weekend plans to check out the FDR Presidential Library in upstate New York, but the gorgeous fall weather in the area was a welcome consolation.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
20 Oct. 2025
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More broadly, the NBA has expressed concern about prop bets, while other sports leagues have worried about the potential for manipulation.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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After Trump spoke to Lurie, local leaders and advocates worried that Trump would shift his attention from San Francisco, which at one point hosted more billionaires than any other city, to less powerful and more diverse enclaves like Oakland and Alameda.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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The picture, posted on the club’s Instagram account, showed Bellingham suspended in mid-air, with a purple elastic band around the sole of his boots and holding a kettlebell weighing around 14 kilograms (31lb).—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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The 50% tariff on top US exporter Brazil, which has seen its coffee bean supply shrink due to a drought, weighs the heaviest on businesses.—
Auzinea Bacon,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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While some critics are skeptical of the claims amid a lack of publicly available evidence – suggesting instead that they are meant to distract from growing public discontent and protests against Noboa’s government – the president insisted to CNN the threat was real.—
Max Saltman,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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What Wednesday evening’s triumph also does is quieten the distracting outside noise that such a newsworthy club invariably attracts.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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If Doan’s Coyotes records were treated the same way Hawerchuk’s Jets records were, moving from one city to the next as a franchise relocated, then Utah Mammoth star Clayton Keller would be chasing him.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
25 Oct. 2025
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Dinosaur mummy zone Senior author of the study, Paul Sereno, PhD, Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, and his team relocated the sites in east-central Wyoming where several famous dinosaur mummies were discovered in the early 20th century.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Oct. 2025
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One of the higher-ups felt my title Stairway to Heaven would be confused with the 1939 movie of the same name.—
Cameron Crowe,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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Historically, people disguised themselves in mystical and mythical ensembles time of year in order to confuse ghosts and deter them from wreaking havoc; the Celts even carved faces into vegetables to keep the entities away from their food.—
Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Disturb.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disturb. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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