Disturbance
[dɪ'stɜːb(ə)ns] or [dɪ'stɝbəns]
Definition
(noun.) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion.
(noun.) a disorderly outburst or tumult; 'they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused'.
(noun.) an unhappy and worried mental state; 'there was too much anger and disturbance'; 'she didn't realize the upset she caused me'.
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Definition
(n.) An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current.
(n.) Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
(n.) Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.
(n.) The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Agitation, derangement, commotion, disorder, confusion, tumult, breeze, disquiet.[2]. Perturbation, molestation, annoyance, discomposure.[3]. Interruption, hinderance.
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Examples
- Of course we are very careful and we make no disturbance in these hills. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His complexion became pale with anger, and the disturbance of his mind was visible in every feature. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It seems like making a great disturbance about nothing particular. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- While the disturbance which travels out from a sounding body is commonly called a wave, it is by no means like the type of wave best known to us, namely, the water wave. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He turned with a sigh to the book, which had been the innocent cause of all this disturbance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The next day, sensible they had misbehaved in giving us that disturbance, they sent three of their old counsellors to make their apology. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I returned to Windsor by the Long Walk, and passing through the town towards the Castle, I found it in a state of agitation and disturbance. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It is occasioned by an unsettlement and it aims at overcoming a disturbance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It might be their object to collect a crowd, and create a disturbance in the street, and, in the confusion thus caused, to obtain access to the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He was still suffering from this sudden disturbance of the quiet routine of his life. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The communist side of the Hussite movement was a part of the same system of disturbance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At that time the subject of slavery caused but little or no disturbance to the public mind. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There were faint sounds from the wood, but no disturbance, no possible disturbance, the world was under a strange ban, a new mystery had supervened. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There seemed to be some strange disturbance in her mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- In so extensive a country as Scotland, however, a tumult in a remote parish was not so likely to give disturbance to government as in a smaller state. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The New England fishery, in particular, was, before the late disturbances, one of the most important, perhaps, in the world. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The permission to strike when insulted will be an 'antidote' to the knife and will prevent disturbances in the State. Plato. The Republic.
- Wireless signals are in reality wave motions in the magnetic forces of the earth, or, in other words, disturbances of those forces. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There are a number of kinds of interference which arise from electrical disturbances in the earth’s atmosphere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Before the commencement of the present disturbances, the colony assemblies had not only the legislative, but a part of the executive power. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I go to look, not to make disturbances. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The disturbances which reach the ear from carriage, waves, and leaves are irregular both in time and strength, and irritate the ear, causing the sensation which we call noise. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- By an ironical accident the new system of disturbances was preceded by a peace festival in London, the Great Exhibition of 1851. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pride meets with provocations and disturbances upon almost every occasion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Close upon these disturbances, and probably connected with them, came a widespread peasants' revolt throughout Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then all was still for a few minutes more; and then there was the moving of chairs, the raised voices, all the little disturbances of leave-taking. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The disturbances produced in America by Mr. Grenville's stamp-act, and the opposition made to it, are well known. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- That same growth of scientific knowledge from which sprang the mechanical revolution was the moving cause of these religious disturbances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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