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Definitions of disturbance
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a noisy fight Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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activity that is an intrusion or interruption; "he looked around for the source of the disturbance"; "there was a disturbance of neural function" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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(psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
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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. Webster Dictionary DB
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Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness. Webster Dictionary DB
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Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult. Webster Dictionary DB
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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. Webster Dictionary DB
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Disturber. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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The interruption of a settled state; uproar; confusion; mental agitation. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
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Agitation: tumult: interruption: perplexity. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
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Agitation; tumult; interruption. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
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The act of disturbing; a public tumult; mental confusion. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
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Any disquiet or interruption of peace; interruption of a settled state of things; tumult; emotion or agitation of the mind; disorder of thoughts; confusion; the hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
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Usage examples for disturbance
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But Mr. Moone's design and mine, which was to look over my closett and please him with the sight thereof, which he hath long desired, was wholly disappointed; for we were in great trouble and disturbance at this fire, not knowing what to think of it. – Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
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I could hear their tap- roots part with pistol- like reports; see great pines and hemlocks and oaks moving, slanting, settling, tilting crazily in every direction as they were heaved upward in this gigantic disturbance – Police!!! by Robert W. Chambers