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disturbance

/dɪˈstɜːbn̩s/

An illustration for disturbance

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

Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.

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)

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