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DISTURBED

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationshipsplay

Synonyms:

disturbed; maladjusted

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

neurotic; psychoneurotic (affected with emotional disorder)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having the place or position changedplay

Example:

disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

disarranged (having the arrangement disturbed; not in order)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Affected with madness or insanityplay

Example:

a man who had gone mad

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or griefplay

Example:

one last worried check of the sleeping children

Synonyms:

disquieted; distressed; disturbed; upset; worried

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Past simple / past participle of the verb disturb

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 Context examples: 

I feared my brain was disturbed by my sufferings and misfortunes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The woman now gave Dorothy a bed to sleep in, and Toto lay down beside her, while the Lion guarded the door of her room so she might not be disturbed.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, nor humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The layers of ice were smooth, suggesting the ice hadn’t been strongly disturbed during that time.

(NASA Finds Possible Second Impact Crater Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

T lymphocyte responses are also disturbed.

(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The survey exceeded all expectations and imaged the depression in stunning detail: a distinctly circular rim, central uplift, disturbed and undisturbed ice layering, and basal debris.

(Unexpected Discovery Under Greenland Ice, NASA)

I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She was more disturbed by Mr. Knightley's not dancing than by any thing else.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But some amazing experience had disturbed his native composure and left its traces in his bristling hair, his flushed, angry cheeks, and his flurried, excited manner.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At every jump of the schooner, red-cap slipped to and fro, but—what was ghastly to behold—neither his attitude nor his fixed teeth-disclosing grin was anyway disturbed by this rough usage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)




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