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" The message of great art is to disturb."
Elayne Boosler

Meaning of "disturb" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DISTURB

From Latin disturbāre, from dis-1 + turbāre to confuse.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DISTURB

dɪˈstɜːb


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISTURB

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disturb is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb disturb in English.

WHAT DOES DISTURB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of disturb in the English dictionary

The first definition of disturb in the dictionary is to intrude on; interrupt. Other definition of disturb is to destroy or interrupt the quietness or peace of. Disturb is also to disarrange; muddle.



CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DISTURB

PRESENT

Present
I disturb
you disturb
he/she/it disturbs
we disturb
you disturb
they disturb
Present continuous
I am disturbing
you are disturbing
he/she/it is disturbing
we are disturbing
you are disturbing
they are disturbing
Present perfect
I have disturbed
you have disturbed
he/she/it has disturbed
we have disturbed
you have disturbed
they have disturbed
Present perfect continuous
I have been disturbing
you have been disturbing
he/she/it has been disturbing
we have been disturbing
you have been disturbing
they have been disturbing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I disturbed
you disturbed
he/she/it disturbed
we disturbed
you disturbed
they disturbed
Past continuous
I was disturbing
you were disturbing
he/she/it was disturbing
we were disturbing
you were disturbing
they were disturbing
Past perfect
I had disturbed
you had disturbed
he/she/it had disturbed
we had disturbed
you had disturbed
they had disturbed
Past perfect continuous
I had been disturbing
you had been disturbing
he/she/it had been disturbing
we had been disturbing
you had been disturbing
they had been disturbing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will disturb
you will disturb
he/she/it will disturb
we will disturb
you will disturb
they will disturb
Future continuous
I will be disturbing
you will be disturbing
he/she/it will be disturbing
we will be disturbing
you will be disturbing
they will be disturbing
Future perfect
I will have disturbed
you will have disturbed
he/she/it will have disturbed
we will have disturbed
you will have disturbed
they will have disturbed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been disturbing
you will have been disturbing
he/she/it will have been disturbing
we will have been disturbing
you will have been disturbing
they will have been disturbing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would disturb
you would disturb
he/she/it would disturb
we would disturb
you would disturb
they would disturb
Conditional continuous
I would be disturbing
you would be disturbing
he/she/it would be disturbing
we would be disturbing
you would be disturbing
they would be disturbing
Conditional perfect
I would have disturb
you would have disturb
he/she/it would have disturb
we would have disturb
you would have disturb
they would have disturb
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been disturbing
you would have been disturbing
he/she/it would have been disturbing
we would have been disturbing
you would have been disturbing
they would have been disturbing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you disturb
we let´s disturb
you disturb
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to disturb
Past participle
disturbed
Present Participle
disturbing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISTURB

acerb · adverb · blurb · burb · curb · exurb · herb · kerb · Loeb · perturb · potherb · proverb · refurb · reverb · Serb · suburb · superb · urb · verb · willowherb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISTURB

distringas · Distrito Federal · distrix · distrouble · distrust · distruster · distrustful · distrustfully · distrustfulness · distrustless · distune · disturbance · disturbance of the peace · disturbant · disturbative · disturbed · disturber · disturbing · disturbingly · distyle

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISTURB

absorb · adsorb · auxiliary verb · barb · bedroom suburb · bicarb · boomburb · carb · courb · dorb · forb · garb · garden suburb · high-carb · orb · phrasal verb · rhubarb · slurb · sorb · wellcurb

Synonyms and antonyms of disturb in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DISTURB»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «disturb» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «disturb» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF DISTURB

Find out the translation of disturb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of disturb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disturb» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

扰乱
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

molestar
570 millions of speakers
en

English

disturb
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

परेशान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يُزْعِجُ
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

отвлекать
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

perturbar
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

distune
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

déranger
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Distune
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

stören
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

邪魔をする
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

방해하다
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Distune
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quấy rầy
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

distune
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

वाटस
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

distune
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

disturbare
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

zaniepokoić
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

турбувати
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

a deranja
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ενοχλώ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

versteur
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

störa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

forstyrre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disturb

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISTURB»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of disturb
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «disturb».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disturb

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «DISTURB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word disturb.
1
Marcus Aurelius
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.
2
Saint Teresa of Avila
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
3
Max Beckmann
It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!
4
Elayne Boosler
The message of great art is to disturb.
5
Catherine Booth
If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.
6
Georges Braque
Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
7
Simon Callow
Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.
8
John Chrysostom
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.
9
Albert Ellis
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
10
Grandmaster Flash
Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISTURB»

Discover the use of disturb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disturb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?: From the Projects to Prep ...
Describes the author's childhood education in the Cleveland projects in the 1960s and 1970s, where she learned to appreciate literature at a young age despite growing up amid race riots and murder.
Charlise Lyles, 2008
2
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?: A Memorial to W.R. Bion
All the contributors to this compilation knew Bion personally and were influenced by his work. They include: Herbert Rosenfeld, Frances Tustin, Andre Green, Donald Meltzer and Hanna Segal.
James S. Grotstein, 1990
3
Not to Disturb: A Novel
Household servants and accidental guests must wait out the orders of the lords of the house: not to disturb.
Muriel Spark, 2010
4
Do Not Disturb
Love doesn’t wait to be invited in… Ainsley Faraday specializes in the management of boutique hotels in sleek urban settings, so she is reluctant to accept her employer’s latest challenge to take over a mom-and-pop property in Santa ...
Carsen Taite, 2010
5
Do Not Disturb
The movements and actions of a family camping in the woods cause the forest creatures to also move, scurry, and make noise.
Nancy Tafuri, 1987
6
Don't Disturb the Neighbors: The United States and Democracy ...
Preface. Today it is commonplace to hear that the promotion of democracy abroad is one of the fundamental principles of U.S. post-Cold War foreign policy. Supporting democracy has become the explicit rationale behind key diplomatic and ...
Jacqueline Mazza, 2001
7
Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia?
At a time when the Howard government has radically narrowed the national vision, the mainstream media has failed to notice or to hold it to account.Do Not Disturboffers diverse and enlightening explanations for this failure.
Robert Manne, 2005
8
Disturb Not the Dream: A Novel
Staying for the season at Mulberry House, the scene of terrible murders nearly forty years before, Dr. Bertram Bradley and his family begin to experience strange and unexplained events
Paula Trachtman, 1981
9
Have Mercy (Mills & Boon Blaze) (Do Not Disturb - Book 22)
At the Hush Hotel nothing is as it seems!
Jo Leigh, 2009
10
Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
This e-book contains the text of her famous speech as well as her introduction to the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Wrinkle in Time and a facsimile of a chapter from the original manuscript with Madeleine’s notations.
Madeleine L'Engle, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISTURB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disturb is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Loud, Late Night Fireworks Disturb Some Residents
Tallahassee, FL - Tallahassee resident Joidan Ward says, "We were doing explosive, kind of explosive thunder, thunder storms loud." That's a ... «WCTV, Jul 15»
2
Dr. SCOTT's remarks disturb PF
Dr. SCOTT's remarks disturb PF. July 4, 2015 | Filed under: Featured,News | Posted by: ZNBC User · lungu, rb 1 lungu agric scott. The Patriotic Front is ... «ZNBC, Jul 15»
3
ATV riders disturb East Windsor neighborhood
Neighbors said ATV riders leave beer cans on the fields after riding on them. (WFSB). ATV were heard on camera riding near these tobacco ... «WFSB, Jul 15»
4
Militants may disturb Amarnath yatra: Army
“Credible inputs from across the border suggest that anti-national elements may attempt to disturb the Amarnath yatra and BAT attack on the ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»
5
Two girls disturb intruder
TWO young girls have been left shaken after disturbing a man trying to break into their home. The primary school-aged girls had been at their ... «Bendigo Advertiser, Jul 15»
6
Roy Exum: Never Disturb The Dead
I've got too many things in my life that scare me so I've always been real leery of “unnecessary fear.” A guy named Terry wanted to teach me ... «The Chattanoogan, Jul 15»
7
Store manager's remarks disturb mother with child in carrier
Erica Kalnins was carrying her 5-year-old daughter in a carrier on her back when she was criticized. (Photo: WTSP). 5530 CONNECT 31 ... «WTSP 10 News, Jun 15»
8
Beach warning: Do not disturb sea turtles
Sea turtles are protected by Florida Law Chapter 370, which states that "no person may take, possess, disturb, mutilate, destroy, cause to be ... «Fort Myers Beach Observer, Jun 15»
9
US Dollar Gap Fails To Disturb Range
The Dow Jones FXCM US Dollar Index advanced as expected after prices put in a bullish Morning Star candlestick pattern. Near-term ... «Investing.com, Jun 15»
10
Please don't disturb reptile shelters!
Legally protected reptiles uses these for shelter and lifting them can disturb protected species and break the law. The tins also helps carry out vital research and ... «Dorset Echo, Jun 15»
REFERENCE
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