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disturbed

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//dɪsˈtɜːbd//
  • United States//dɪsˈtɝbd//

Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.

adjective

  1. 1

    Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.

    disturbed boy

    disturbed child

    disturbed patient

    mentally disturbed

  2. 2

    Extremely alarmed; shocked.

  3. 3

    Having been altered or changed.

    disturbed soil

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of disturbsimple past and past participle of disturb

Forms

comparative
more disturbed
superlative
most disturbed
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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