• Disturbing

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /dɪsˈtɜː(ɹ)bɪŋ(g)/
    • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bɪŋ

    Full definition of disturbing

    Adjective

    disturbing

    1. Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 8, I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

    Verb

    disturbing
    1. Present participle of disturb
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