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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
disturbance
/dɪˈstɜːbn̩s/
noun
a noise or something that stops you from continuing what you were doing
- “The police arrested the man who was causing the disturbance.”Tatoeba
- “True virtues always cause a disturbance and accumulate hate.”Tatoeba
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Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)