Synonyms for disturb
dɪˈstɜrbdis·turb

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1. disturb

   Objects are displaced when moved out of the place they have occupied; they are misplaced when put into a place where they should not be. One may know where to find what he has misplaced; what he has mislaid he can not locate.

   Synonyms:
   confuse, crowd out, derange, disarrange, displace, jumble, mislay, misplace, remove, unsettle

   Antonyms:
   adjust, array, assort, classify, dispose, group, order, place, put in order, put in place, set in order, sort

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1. disturb

   Synonyms:
   derange, discompose, disorder, discommode, plague, confuse, rouse, agitate, annoy, trouble, interrupt, incommode, worry, vex, molest, disquiet

   Antonyms:
   order, collocate, arrange, pacify, soothe, quiet, compose, leave

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1. disturb, upset, troubleverb

   move deeply

   "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"

   Synonyms:
   discomfit, touch, shake up, raise up, disorder, interrupt, cark, commove, bother, inconvenience oneself, agitate, disquiet, turn over, put out, perturb, trouble oneself, tump over, unhinge, incommode, disoblige, trouble, overturn, bowl over, discommode, discompose, tip over, upset, inconvenience, swage, untune, disconcert, vex, ail, knock over, stir up, distract, pain

2. agitate, vex, disturb, commove, shake up, stir up, raise upverb

   change the arrangement or position of

   Synonyms:
   fight, touch, crusade, succuss, excite, stick, perplex, get, nark, irritate, shake up, shake, mystify, flummox, commove, inflame, bother, press, agitate, rile, gravel, stir, nonplus, wake, shift, instigate, stimulate, reorganise, get to, dumbfound, rouse, fire up, reorganize, interrupt, vex, heat, nettle, baffle, chafe, get at, trouble, beat, fluff up, ignite, budge, amaze, turn on, charge, annoy, bump around, upset, charge up, incite, jar, puzzle, bewilder, rag, push, foment, campaign, stupefy, worry, stir up, raise up, plump up, pose, devil, set off

3. touch, disturbverb

   tamper with

   "Don't touch my CDs!"

   Synonyms:
   adjoin, touch, shake up, have-to doe with, raise up, interrupt, rival, commove, pertain, agitate, match, concern, impact, stir, tinge, refer, meet, affect, trouble, relate, touch on, equal, tinct, bear on, upset, allude, bear upon, reach, contact, come to, advert, vex, partake, extend to, stir up, tint

4. interrupt, disturbverb

   destroy the peace or tranquility of

   "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"

   Synonyms:
   interrupt, disrupt, trouble, break up, touch, raise up, vex, cut off, stir up, commove, shake up, break, agitate, upset

5. disturbverb

   damage as if by shaking or jarring

   "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!"

   Synonyms:
   interrupt, shake up, trouble, touch, raise up, stir up, commove, vex, agitate, upset

Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Affect
   • Damage
   • Move

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1. disturb

   Synonyms:
   v. a. agitate, shake, stir, derange, disorder, confuse, unsettle, throw into confusion, put into disorder

2. disturb

   Synonyms:
   molest, annoy, disquiet, vex, ruffle, worry, plague, trouble, incommode

3. disturb

   Synonyms:
   interrupt, impede, hinder

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1. disturbverb

   Synonyms:
   molest, perturb, annoy, disquiet, agitate, incommode, ruffle, disarrange, derange, unsettle, roust, excite

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1. List of paraphrases for "disturb":

   disrupt, bother, upset, interrupt, annoy, distort, perturb, interfere

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1. Jonathan Sacks:

   Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

2. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus:

   Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

3. Indira Ghandi:

   Whenever you take a step forward you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the ground.

4. Hermann Hesse:

   If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

5. Hans Jaeckel:

   In a mechanical sense, Grexit would disturb the workings and the structure of the European Union more (than Brexit), but for the spirit and future perspective and meaningfulness of the European Union, Brexit is the bigger risk.