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Webster 1828 Edition


Disturbing

DISTURBING

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ppr.
Moving; exciting; rendering uneasy; making a tumult; interrupting peace; incommoding the quiet enjoyment of.

Definition 2024


disturbing

disturbing

English

Adjective

disturbing (comparative more disturbing, superlative most disturbing)

  1. Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
      I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

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Verb

disturbing

  1. present participle of disturb