Word Finder - disturbed

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To confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.

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A school of fish disturbed the water.

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To divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.

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A mudslide disturbed the course of the river.

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To have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional distress or confusion.

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A disturbing film that tries to explore the mind of a serial killer.

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Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.

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Extremely alarmed; shocked.

The meeting with Claudia had disturbed him.

Naturally the family was much disturbed, and left the room.

Carmen glanced around the table, but everyone seemed to be more amused than disturbed... everyone but Señor Medena.

Disturbed, Deidre withdrew from his embrace.

We'll hear him the same as when he's in here, but he won't be disturbed by us when we talk.

This one disturbed him.

Claudia looked somewhat disturbed by the exchange.

His display of checked power disturbed her.

The mention of Rissa's death disturbed him.

Scorpions of various species have been observed to make a hissing noise when disturbed, or even when not disturbed.

The War of the Polish Succession which now disturbed Europe is only important in Italian history because the treaty of Vienna in 1738 settled the disputed affairs of the duchies Polish of Parma and Tuscany.

This gaze disturbed and confused Boris more and more.

Disturbed, he folded the leaf and placed it in his pocket.

The Zulu country continued, however, excited and disturbed until the government of Natal in 1861 obtained the formal nomination of a successor to Panda; and Cetywayo was appointed.

Immediate liberation was carried out in Antigua, and public tranquillity was so far from being disturbed there that the Christmas of 1833 was the first for twenty years during which martial law was not proclaimed in order to preserve the peace.

At the dinner-table she was greatly disturbed because I didn't eat, and suggested that "Cook make tea for teacher."

In accordance with the admonitions of Jenghiz to his children and grandchildren, they retained their pastoral mode of life, so that the subject races, agriculturists and dwellers in towns, were not disturbed in their ordinary avocations.

Unfortunately for the peace of the world his habitual policy of maintaining the existing state of things was frequently obscured and disturbed by his desire to maintain and increase his own and his country's prestige, influence and territory.

Fox and their two daughters, at Hydesville (Wayne county), New York, were much disturbed by unexplained knockings.

Clearly such alterations as the construction of railways in nearly all parts of the continent, and the establishment of peace over formerly disturbed areas like India, are of enormous importance, and must change the life of the people.

In 1775 he was superseded in the empress's graces by Zavadovsky; but the relations between Catherine and her former lover continued to be most friendly, and his influence with her was never seriously disturbed by any of her subsequent favourites.

In the ordinary course the fleet would have been demobilized at the close of the week; but with the outlook so disturbed, the First Lord and the First Sea Lord (Prince Louis of Battenberg, afterwards Lord Milford Haven) took the responsibility of keeping it on a war footing, ready for action.

Although petroleum wells in Russia have not the depth of many of those in the United States, the disturbed character of the strata, with consequent liability to caving, and the occurrence of hard concretions, render drilling a lengthy and expensive Drilling in operation.

War had indeed disturbed the original agreement of Gisors between Philip Augustus and Henry II., but a new agreement was made between Henry's successor, Richard I., and the French king at Nonancourt (December 1189), by which the two monarchs were to meet at Vezelay next year, and then follow the sea route to the Holy Land together.

The quarrels between these two leaders disturbed the affairs of the island for the next two years.

In disturbed times, of course, right yielded to might or to practical necessities.

But the institution itself could not be at once seriously disturbed.

They are frequently very much disturbed and often strongly folded.

But owing to the disturbed conditions created by the war it is probable that these figures by no means represent normal conditions.

The local authorities were divided among themselves by bitter feuds - the ecclesiastical against the civil, the ayuntamiento against the governors, the administrative officers among themselves; brigandage, mutinies and intestinal struggles disturbed the peace.

But in 1893 the uniform good fortune which had attended the Stevensons since their settlement in Samoa began to be disturbed.

As the rock was highly viscous and the surface over which it moved was often irregular the motion was disturbed and fluctuating; hence the sinuous and contorted appearance frequently assumed by the banding.

When the field is removed, many of the newly formed combinations are but slightly disturbed, and the group may consequently retain a considerable resultant moment.

This ideal lot, from the native point of view, drew such numbers of immigrants from disturbed districts that with the natural increase of population in thirty years the native inhabitants increased from about ioo,000 to fully 350,000.

The harmony between arithmetical and geometrical measurement, which was disturbed by the Greek geometers on the discovery of irrational numbers, is restored by an unlimited supply of the causes of disturbance.

The experiment is easily made on a laboratory scale, with a small source of light, the rays from which, in their course towards a rather distant screen, are disturbed by the neighbourhood of a heated body.

Just before this date the Palatinate began to be disturbed by troubles about religion.

The following years were marked by recurring attempts at revolution, but on the whole Venezuela during the period1830-1846was less disturbed than the neighbouring republic owing to the dominating influence of General Paez, who during the whole of that time exercised practically dictatorial power.

During 1901 and 1902 the internal condition of the country remained disturbed, and fighting went on continually between the government troops and the revolutionists.

The chief homes of medical as of other learning in these disturbed times were the monasteries.

Zululand remained, however, in a disturbed condition, and a number of white traders and officials were murdered.

Much of Upper Burma, however, remained disturbed until 1890.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Noungdaugyi, whose reign was disturbed by the rebellion of his brother Sin-byu-shin, and afterwards by one of his father's generals.

The land has hills and valleys, but the surface of water at rest is a horizontal plane; and if disturbed the surface moves in waves.

The last few years of his life, however, were disturbed by the rebellion of his eldest son, which well-nigh proved fatal.

It was now intended to re-establish the government on the basis of the old republican institutions, but it was found that sixty years of Medici rule had reduced them to mere shadows, and the condition of the government, largely controlled by a balia of 20 accoppiatori and frequently disturbed by the summoning of the parlamento, was utterly chaotic. Consequently men talked of nothing save of changing the constitution, but unfortunately there was no longer an upper class accustomed to public affairs, while the lower class was thoroughly demoralized.

The attention of European diplomacy at this time was concentrated upon the king of Prussia, whose insatiable acquisitiveness disturbed all his neighbours.

Another account tells of marauding bands of Shechemites which disturbed the district.

Owing to the disturbed state of the country, due to the presence of raiding parties from Nejd, Wellsted was unable to carry out his original intention of exploring the country to the west, and after an excursion along the Batina coast to Sohar he returned to India.

The trade of Hodeda, which contributes by far the largest share to that of Turkish Yemen, fell off considerably during the period from 1901-1905, chiefly owing to the disturbed state of the country.