1 [VN] to interrupt sb when they are trying to work, sleep, etc:
I'm sorry to disturb you, but can I talk to you for a moment? * If you get up early, try not to disturb everyone else. * She awoke early after a disturbed night. * Only the cry of seabirds disturbed the silence.
2 [VN] to move sth or change its position:
Don't disturb the papers on my desk.
3 to make sb worry:
[VN] The letter shocked and disturbed me. * [VNtoinf] It disturbed her to realize that she was missing him.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for disturb is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is disturb a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, disturb is tagged as verb.
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