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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disturbed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
mentally
▪ Back in London, what is available to mentally disturbed women who are treated in hospital?
▪ There is widespread agreement that there are many mentally disturbed people in prison who would be better off in hospital.
very
▪ Meanwhile G120 is facing the wrong way and H 131 is in very disturbed wind behind the whole fleet.
▪ These were very disturbed patients who perhaps do not fit into the group under discussion here.
▪ Heterosexuality can be more or less narcissistic, it can be very disturbed or not so.
▪ The second thing was all the teenage angst; very disturbed letters.
■ NOUN
behaviour
▪ Between the ages of 2 and 5 she had had episodes of disturbed behaviour during sleep.
▪ Discussion Patients admitted to casualty departments with acutely disturbed behaviour present a major diagnostic challenge.
▪ When she was thirteen years old she was already showing signs of disruptive, disturbed behaviour.
▪ In addition a 25 second burst of delta activity was seen that did not cause panic or disturbed behaviour.
▪ Seen in the context of a ten-year history of disturbed behaviour, these incidents could have been prevented.
▪ If there are no obvious reasons for the baby showing this disturbed behaviour, then the role of diet should be considered.
child
▪ The report said that disturbed children were more than twice as likely to become smokers as other youngsters.
▪ This group of disturbed children also had a greater persistence of bedwetting.
▪ Porter, a woman of integrity, now on her fourth marriage and deeply fond of both her disturbed children.
▪ The isolation or bunching together of such pupils only provides them with poor role models and intensive interaction with other disturbed children.
▪ It is sad that, as far as disturbed children are concerned, it is also becoming one of the most dangerous.
people
▪ I never realised there were so many disturbed people around.
▪ In the works of Bacon, Richier, de Kooning and Golub we see ugly and disturbed people.
▪ There is widespread agreement that there are many mentally disturbed people in prison who would be better off in hospital.
state
▪ The prison Governor says he was in a disturbed state.
▪ The reason given by the king was the disturbed state of the kingdom which prevented his attending to ecclesiastical business.
▪ The country remained in a disturbed state.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The defendant is mentally and emotionally disturbed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Heterosexuality can be more or less narcissistic, it can be very disturbed or not so.
▪ I never realised there were so many disturbed people around.
▪ The hamster appears lifeless if disturbed, but returns to normal in about five minutes.
▪ The reason given by the king was the disturbed state of the kingdom which prevented his attending to ecclesiastical business.
▪ The starlings were disturbed, swirling around in S-shapes and parabolas and unexpected clusters.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disturbed

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.

    Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above.
    --Cowper.

    The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest.
    --Spenser.

    The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority.
    --Burke.

  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.

  3. To turn from a regular or designed course. [Obs.]

    And disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim.
    --Milton.

    Syn: To disorder; disquiet; agitate; discompose; molest; perplex; trouble; incommode; ruffle.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disturbed

past participle adjective from disturb. Meaning "emotionally or mentally unstable" is from 1904.

Wiktionary
disturbed
  1. 1 Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis. 2 Extremely surprised; shocked. v

  2. (en-past of: disturb)

WordNet
disturbed
  1. adj. 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, upset, worried]

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

  4. lacking order or stability; "these unsettled times" [syn: unsettled]

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

Wikipedia
Disturbed (film)

Disturbed is a 1990 American horror film directed by Charles Winkler starring Malcolm McDowell as a psychiatrist who rapes a young woman in his care, then must deal with her vengeance-seeking daughter 10 years later.

Disturbed (album)

Disturbed is the second album by Coo Coo Cal, released on September 18, 2001 through Tommy Boy Records. Most of the album was produced by Bigg Hank, though Bink, DJ Cipha Sounds, Rated X and Kay Gee of Naughty by Nature also contributed production to the album.

Disturbed (band)

Disturbed is an American heavy metal band from Chicago. The band includes vocalist David Draiman, bassist John Moyer, guitarist Dan Donegan, and drummer Mike Wengren. Former band members are vocalist Erich Awalt and bassist Steve Kmak.

The band has released six studio albums, five of which have consecutively debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Disturbed went into hiatus in October 2011, during which the band's members focused on various side projects, and returned in June 2015, releasing their first album in five years, Immortalized, on August 21.

Disturbed (Numbers)

"Disturbed" is the 21st episode of the fifth season of the American television show Numb3rs. In the episode written by series creators/executive producers Cheryl Heuton and Nicolas Falacci, skeptical Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents track an undetected serial killer while their math consultant copes with his brother's recent injury. After FBI Special Agent Don Eppes's ( Rob Morrow) injury, FBI Special Agent David Sinclair ( Alimi Ballard), who was the newest member of the team at the beginning of the series, served as team leader. Falacci and Heuton also included Easter eggs from the " Pilot" and from some of the previous 99 episodes.

The producers brought back one previous guest star and almost had a special guest star. For the 100th episode, series producers brought back Josh Gad, who amazed producers in a previous episode. Dr. Stephen Hawking, who visited the set during filming, almost became a guest star in the episode.

"Disturbed" first aired in the United States on May 1, 2009. Critics generally liked the episode.

Usage examples of "disturbed".

Being that it was his first foray into the South, Adams might have been disturbed by the sight of slaves at work.

The march of science, which had been stopped by the local fogs of Todos Santos some fifty years, had not disturbed the simple Aesculapius of the province with heterodox theories: he still purged and bled like Sangrado, and met the priest at the deathbed of his victims with a pious satisfaction that had no trace of skeptical contention.

He had no notion of being disturbed in his enjoyment by the sight of Hivites and Amorites, or whatever they might be, lapping champagne and shining in the heat.

She disturbed an emerald anole sunning itself on the flagstones, and it skittered away to blink at her from beneath a branch.

Yet I was disturbed when he spoke of a prodigy, for suddenly I remembered the birth of this Apis calf and my own fears.

Nevertheless, it was never the existence of atheists, any more than Arabs or Aristotelian pagans, that disturbed the extraordinary controversial composure of Thomas Aquinas.

Shortly after his arrest Castaing had said that the cats and dogs about the hotel had made such a noise on the night of May 30 that they had disturbed the rest of Auguste, who, in the early morning, had asked Castaing to get some poison to kill them.

No incident disturbed this peaceful night, and the next day, the 29th of March, fresh and active they awoke, ready to undertake the excursion which must determine their fate.

A particularly showy native flower of the Planet Texas, three inches in diameter when fully opened, the bloodflower exuded a liquid of the color and consistency of human blood when disturbed.

But no brakeman disturbed him on that jolting journey deep into the marshy shore line where Connecticut paralleled the Sound.

I was aware or concerned, had only manifested themselves in the works of Samuel Bridgeman and others who had worked the same vein before him, and in the disturbed imagination of his widow.

Leia stretched out with the Force, but if Carib was disturbed by the discussion of wrecked minds, it was masked by the odd clone-sense surrounding all of them.

Tony wondered just how disturbed he should be about finding the smell of warm vodka and catnip comforting.

The flight was like that of citified starlings rising when disturbed to settle again three trees further.

He told her brusquely to have Leonard Colo chair the meeting in his place, that he was not to be disturbed, then motioned for Seymour to continue.