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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. having the place or position changed;
- Example: "the disturbed books and papers on her desk"
- Example: "disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed"

2. afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief;
- Example: "too upset to say anything"
- Example: "spent many disquieted moments"
- Example: "distressed about her son's leaving home"
- Example: "lapsed into disturbed sleep"
- Example: "worried parents"
- Example: "a worried frown"
- Example: "one last worried check of the sleeping children"
[syn: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried]

3. emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships;
[syn: disturbed, maladjusted]

4. affected with madness or insanity;
- Example: "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disturb \Dis*turb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disturbed; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Disturbing.] [OE. desturben, destourben, OF.
   destorber, desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare,
   disturbatum; dis- + turbare to disturb, trouble, turba
   disorder, tumult, crowd. See Turbid.]
   1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to
      interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of
      rest.
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            Preparing to disturb
            With all-cofounding war the realms above. --Cowper.
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            The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest.
                                                  --Spenser.
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            The utmost which the discontented colonies could do,
            was to disturb authority.             --Burke.
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   2. To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to
      disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by
      receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.
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   3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.]
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            And disturb
            His inmost counsels from their destined aim.
                                                  --Milton.

   Syn: To disorder; disquiet; agitate; discompose; molest;
        perplex; trouble; incommode; ruffle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disturbed
    adj 1: having the place or position changed; "the disturbed
           books and papers on her desk"; "disturbed grass showed
           where the horse had passed"
    2: afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or
       grief; "too upset to say anything"; "spent many disquieted
       moments"; "distressed about her son's leaving home"; "lapsed
       into disturbed sleep"; "worried parents"; "a worried frown";
       "one last worried check of the sleeping children" [syn:
       disquieted, distressed, disturbed, upset, worried]
    3: emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with
       personal relationships [syn: disturbed, maladjusted]
    4: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
       [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad,
       sick, unbalanced, unhinged]