disturbed
/dɪsˈtɝbd/ adjective B2- Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis. · disturbed boy· disturbed child
- Extremely alarmed; shocked.
- Having been altered or changed. · disturbed soil
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The woman now gave Dorothy a bed to sleep in, and Toto lay down beside her, while the Lion guarded the door of her room so she might not be disturbed.
They were more disturbed, more unequal, than she had often seen them.
Douglas had seemed disturbed since the day before, when he had been at Tunbridge Wells.
Why, it means that the writer was going to put the female name Rachel, but was disturbed before he or she had time to finish.
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