worrying, disquieting, perturbing; tending to interrupt
bother, interrupt; confuse; worry, cause concern; cause disorder
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Disturbing Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Disturb
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. Aboutof Disturb
disturbing
adj : causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" [syn: distressing, distressful, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying]
Adjective
1. causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time"
(synonym) distressing, distressful, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
(similar) heavy
Verb
1. move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
(synonym) upset, trouble
(hypernym) affect, impress, move, strike
(hyponym) agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up
(derivation) disturbance, perturbation, upset
2. change the arrangement or position of
(synonym) agitate, vex, commove, shake up, stir up, raise up
(hypernym) move, displace
(hyponym) beat, scramble
3. tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
(synonym) touch
(hypernym) change, alter, modify
(hyponym) upset
(derivation) disturbance
4. destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"
(synonym) interrupt
(hypernym) act, move
5. damage as if by shaking or jarring; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!"
(hypernym) damage
Disturbing Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Disturbance may refer to:
- Disturbance (ecology), a temporary change in average environmental conditions that causes a pronounced change in an ecosystem
- Disturbance (film), a 2011 upcoming British horror film
- Disturbance (geology), linear zone of faults and folds
- Disturbance (statistics)
- Disturbance theory, a political postulation
- "Disturbance," a song by Eyehategod from the album Take as Needed for Pain
- Disturbing the peace
- Domestic disturbance, violence occurring between cohabitants
- Energy field disturbance, an alternative medicine diagnosis
- Serious emotional disturbance, a mental illness
- Sudden ionospheric disturbance, an abnormally high plasma density in the D region of the ionosphere caused by a solar flare
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