{
    "term": "disturb",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "disturb",
            "heSheIt": "disturbs"
        },
        "pastSimple": "disturbed",
        "pastParticiple": "disturbed",
        "ingForm": "disturbing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to interrupt somebody when they are trying to work, sleep, etc.",
            "sensetop": "disturb somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry to disturb you, but can I talk to you for a moment?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "If you get up early, try not to disturb everyone else."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Do not disturb** *(= a sign placed on the outside of the door of a hotel room, office, etc.)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She awoke early after a disturbed night."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Only the cry of seabirds disturbed the silence."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry to disturb you, but could you sign this letter?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't disturb her when she's working."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There's no point in disturbing him with something so trivial."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to make somebody worry",
            "sensetop": "disturb somebodyit disturbs somebody to do something",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The letter shocked and disturbed me.",
                    "contextForm": "disturb somebody"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It disturbed her to realize that she was alone.",
                    "contextForm": "it disturbs somebody to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It disturbed her to realize that she was missing him already."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to move something or change its position",
            "sensetop": "disturb something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't disturb the papers on my desk."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to make something function differently from normal",
            "sensetop": "disturb something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "During a magnetic storm, the earth's magnetic field is disturbed."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːb/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturb__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːbz/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturbs__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːbd/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturbed__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːbɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturbing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːrb/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturb__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːrbz/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturbs__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːrbd/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturbed__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈstɜːrbɪŋ/",
                "audio": "di/disturb/disturbing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French destourber, from Latin disturbare, from dis- ‘utterly’ + turbare ‘disturb’ (from turba ‘tumult’)."
}