Usually means: Interrupt, alter, or agitate normal state.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. disturb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. disturb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disturb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disturb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disturb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disturb, disturb: Wordnik
  7. disturb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disturb: Wiktionary
  9. disturb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disturb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disturb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. disturb: Dictionary.com
  13. disturb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disturb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disturb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disturb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disturb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disturb: Rhymezone
  19. disturb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disturb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. disturb: Free Dictionary
  22. disturb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. disturb: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. disturb: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disturb: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
verb:  (transitive) to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.
verb:  (intransitive) to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.
noun:  (obsolete) disturbance

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