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
- Causing distress or worry or anxiety.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: distressing, distressful, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying
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