All disturb synonyms

verb disturb

• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• perturb — to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind; agitate.
• rattle — to give out or cause a rapid succession of short, sharp sounds, as in consequence of agitation and repeated concussions: The windows rattled in their frames.
• frighten — to make afraid or fearful; throw into a fright; terrify; scare.
• puzzle — a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• astound — If something astounds you, you are very surprised by it.
• agitate — If people agitate for something, they protest or take part in political activity in order to get it.
• arouse — If something arouses a particular reaction or attitude in people, it causes them to have that reaction or attitude.
• vex — to irritate; annoy; provoke: His noisy neighbors often vexed him.
• shake — to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements.
• gall — (Pizi) 1840?–94, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux: a major chief in the battle of Little Bighorn.
• provoke — to anger, enrage, exasperate, or vex.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• irritate — to excite to impatience or anger; annoy.
• amaze — If something amazes you, it surprises you very much.
• startle — to disturb or agitate suddenly as by surprise or alarm.
• irk — to irritate, annoy, or exasperate: It irked him to wait in line.
• outrage — an act of wanton cruelty or violence; any gross violation of law or decency.
• disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
• perplex — to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain; confuse mentally: Her strange response perplexed me.
• unnerve — to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him.
• plague — French La Peste. a novel (1947) by Albert Camus.
• interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
• trouble — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
• annoy — If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.
• dishearten — to depress the hope, courage, or spirits of; discourage.
• alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
• distract — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• distort — to twist awry or out of shape; make crooked or deformed: Arthritis had distorted his fingers.
• derange — to disturb the order or arrangement of; throw into disorder; disarrange
• discompose — to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle: The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
• intrude — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
• pain — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
• tire — Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), especially with a headdress.
• afflict — If you are afflicted by pain, illness, or disaster, it affects you badly and makes you suffer.
• pique — a fabric of cotton, spun rayon, or silk, woven lengthwise with raised cords.
• pester — to bother persistently with petty annoyances; trouble: Don't pester me with your trivial problems.
• grieve — to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
• muddle — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
• confound — If someone or something confounds you, they make you feel surprised or confused, often by showing you that your opinions or expectations of them were wrong.
• ail — If something ails a group or area of activity, it is a problem or source of trouble for that group or for people involved in that activity.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• badger — A badger is a wild animal which has a white head with two wide black stripes on it. Badgers live underground and usually come up to feed at night.
• fluster — to put into a state of agitated confusion: His constant criticism flustered me.