Definition of Disturbance
Disturbance
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.
Confusion of the mind; agitation of the feelings; perplexity; uneasiness.
Violent agitation in the body politic; public commotion; tumult.
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.
Related Definitions:
Agitation,
An,
And,
As,
Body,
Common,
Commotion,
Confusion,
Course,
Current,
Derangement,
Disorder,
Disquiet,
Disquieting,
Disturbance,
Enjoyment,
Franchise,
Galvanic,
Hindering,
His,
In,
Interruption,
Lawful,
Like,
Mind,
Of,
Or,
Peace,
Peaceable,
Perplexity,
Person,
Politic,
Public,
Quiet,
Regular,
Religious,
Right,
State,
The,
Tumult,
Uneasiness,
Violent
Disturbance Quotations
I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis
It's funny that there was so much disturbance about having a Catholic in the White House with Kennedy, and when we finally get a religion in the White House that's causing a lot of conflicts, and concerns, and disturbances for a lot of people, it's in the Bush Administration.
Roger Ebert
Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.
Li Peng
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Anatole Broyard
But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.
Hjalmar Branting
There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there.
Michael Richards
I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
Dan Abrams
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
Mary C. Jones
In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China.
Li Peng
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.
John Cleveland
Disturbance Translations
disturbance in Dutch is storing
disturbance in Latin is turbatio, tumultus
disturbance in Norwegian is forstyrrelse, uro
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
