Legal Definition and Related Resources of Disturb

To throw into disorder or confusion; to interfere with the lawful enjoyment of a right ; to interrupt settled state , to break up or damage ; to agitate, to arouse from a state of repose, to molest, interrupt, hinder, disquiet. See Town of Ponchatoula v Bates, 138 So. 851, 173 La. 824.

verb

• agitate
• alarm
• annoy
• arouse
• badger
• bedevil
• befuddle
• bewilder
• bother
• churn
• commovere
• confound
• confuse
• conturbare
• derange
• disarrange
• discomfit
• discompose
• disconcert
• dishevel
• dislocate
• dislodge
• dismay
• disorder
• disorganize
• disorientate
• displace
• displant
• displease
• disquiet
• distemper
• distract
• distress
• enrage
• exasperate
• ferment
• fluster
• havoc
• incommode
• interfere
• interrupt
• intrude
• irk
• make uneasy
• meddle
• molest
• nettle
• nonplus
• outrage
• overturn
• perplex
• perturb
• perturbare
• pique
• plaguepuzzle
• rearrange
• roil
• rouse
• ruffle
• shake
• shake up
• startle
• stir up
• subvert
• tamper
• trouble
• unbalance
• unnerve
• unseat
• unsettle
• vex
• worry
• Associated Concepts: disturbing the peace
• right to quiet enjoyment

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