## Meanings
1. To interrupt someone and stop them from working, resting, or sleeping.
2. To worry or upset someone.
3. To move something or change the way it is arranged.

## Examples
- Please do not disturb me while I am on the phone.
- The violent scenes in the film disturbed many viewers.
- Try not to disturb the papers on my desk.

## Synonyms
- upset

## Derived Forms
- disturbability
- disturbable
- disturbance
- disturbative
- disturbed
- disturber
- disturbing
- redisturb

## Related Forms
- perturb
- turbation
- turbid
- turbine

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: destourben
- Root: distourber
- Root: destorber
- Root: disturbare
- Root: *twerH-

## Etymology
From Middle English destourben, from Anglo-Norman distourber and Old French destorber, from Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare (“to throw into disorder”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH-, *(s)turH- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”).

## AI Etymology
Disturb comes from Middle English destourben, from Anglo-Norman distourber and Old French destorber, from Latin disturbare, intensifying for turbare (“to throw into disorder”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH-, *(s)turH- (“to rotate, swirl, twirl, move around”). In current use, the main senses are “To interrupt someone and stop them from working, resting, or sleeping” and “To worry or upset someone”.

## Topics
- Verbs of Movement

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