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dis·turb·ance
 disturbance
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- pronunciation:
- dih
stuhr
bihns
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
an act or instance of disturbing.
骚乱
The police came because someone reported a disturbance.警察来了因为有人报告了骚乱。- synonyms:
- agitation
- similar words:
- annoyance, interruption, upheaval
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| definition 2: |
something that disturbs.
干扰
The teacher says talking in class is a disturbance she will not allow.老师说在课堂上说话是她不允许的干扰行为。- similar words:
- annoyance, bother, inconvenience, interruption, nuisance
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| related words: |
chaos, difficulty, fluster, tremor |
The word disturbance
contains the following parts:
turb
Latin
root
that means confusion
  Example words:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, admittance, agency, arrogance, attendance, audience, buoyancy, conference, confidence, consequence, consistency, currency, deficiency, difference, disappearance, disturbance, emergency, frequency, importance, independence, occurrence, preference, presidency, residence, science, tendency
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