Meaning & use
disturb
To interrupt someone's activity, rest, or peace, or to move something from its settled state.
See it in a sentence
Please do not disturb the guests resting in rooms along this corridor.
The scandal disturbed the usually quiet routine of the small mountain town.
A note on using this word
'Do not disturb,' seen on hotel doors, shows disturb's common sense of interrupting rest or privacy.
Words with a similar meaning
interruptunsettle
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Words with an opposite meaning
calmsoothe
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