verb
- Move deeply.
- usage: "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
- Change the arrangement or position of.
- Tamper with.
- usage: "Don't touch my CDs"
- Destroy the peace or tranquility of.
- usage: "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"
- Damage as if by shaking or jarring.
- usage: "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly"
- synonyms: disturb
adjective
- Having the place or position changed.
- usage: "the disturbed books and papers on her desk"; "disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed"
- Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: disquieted, distressed, upset, worried
- Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships.
- synonyms: maladjusted
- Affected with madness or insanity.
- usage: "a man who had gone mad"
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