Disturb

Verb

 * 1)  to confuse or irritate a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
 * 2)  to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
 * 3)  to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional irritation or confusion.

Adverbs for Disturb
deeply; grievously; emotionally; functionally; mentally; mutually; exceptionally; powerfully; pathologically; intellectually; violently; electrically; psychically; internally; rudely; unnecessarily; unpleasantly; inwardly; particularly; wantonly; perceptibly; profoundly; permanently; materially;

Synonyms for Disturb
discompose, annoy, unsettle, trouble, worry, vex, confuse, derange, agitate, arouse, rouse, distress, bother, disarrange, disorder, displace, disconcert, unbalance.

Antonyms for Disturb
pacify, quiet, calm, soothe, soften, arrange, mollify, allay, still, appease, conciliate, compose, reconcile, tranquilize.

Derived terms

 * disturbance

Thesaurus
perturb, perturbate, pester, pick on, pique, plague, pluck the beard, pother, provoke, psych, put off, put out, put to it, puzzle, raise hell, rattle, remove, replace, ride, rile, ripple, rock, roil, roughen, ruffle, ruin, rumple, scare, shake, shake up, shift, ship, shock, spook, stagger, stir, stir up, swirl, tamper, tease, terrify, throw, throw into confusion, torment, transfer, trouble, try the patience, tweak the nose, unhinge, unsettle, upset, vex, whip, whip up, whisk, work up, worry, abash, addle, addle the wits, affect, afflict, aggravate, agitate, ail, alarm, annoy, badger, bait, ball up, be at, be the matter, beat, beat up, becloud, bedazzle, bedevil, befuddle, beset, bewilder, bother, bristle, brown off, bug, bullyrag, burden, burn up, cancel, change, chivy, churn, churn up, cloud, complicate matters, concern, confound, confuse, convulse, damage, daze, dazzle, derange, destroy, devil, disarrange, disarray, discombobulate, discomfit, discomfort, discommode, discompose, disconcert, dishevel, dislocate, dismay, disorder, disorganize, disorient, displace, disquiet, disrupt, distemper, distract, distress, dog, electrify, embarrass, embroil, entangle, exasperate, excite, exercise, fash, ferment, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, frazzle, fret, frighten, fuddle, fuss, get, give concern, gripe, harass, harm, harry, hassle, heckle, hector, hound, humiliate, incommode, inconvenience, interfere, interfere with, intermeddle, interrupt, irk, irritate, jar, jolt, jumble, knock galley-west, load with care, maze, meddle, mess up, miff, mist, mix up, moider, molest, mortify, move, muddle, nag, needle, negate, nettle, nudzh, paddle, peeve, perplex, persecute,

Etymology
Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare, "to throw into disorder".

Pronunciation




Translations

 * Bulgarian: безпокоя, смущавам
 * Catalan: molestar
 * Chinese: dǎrǎo
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:


 * Japanese: 乱す (みだす, midasu)
 * Lithuanian: trukdyti
 * Norwegian: forstyrre
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:, cuir dragh air
 * Spanish: perturbar
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: gambala, abala


 * Bulgarian: тревожа


 * Scottish Gaelic: cuir dragh air