Synonyms for disturb
dɪˈstɜrb

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1. disturb, upset, trouble(verb)

   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 up(verb)

   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, disturb(verb)

   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, disturb(verb)

   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. disturb(verb)

   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

English Synonyms and Antonyms(2.00 / 4 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

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. disturb(v)

   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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How to use disturb in a sentence?

1. Franklin P. Jones:

   An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.

2. Magdalena Svensson:

   We follow them at night, and whenever they make their calls we record them, they get used to you. Within an hour they don't run away anymore. We also use red light beams which don't disturb them.

3. Johathan Sacks:

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

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. Lakeland Parks and Recreation Department:

   It appears they have congregated for mating, they are non-venomous and generally not aggressive as long as people do not disturb them.

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