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disturbed

adjective as in disturbed physically

adjective as in disturbed mentally

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Its slow rotation means that it is more easily disturbed by collisions, which can knock the asteroid into a chaotic tumble.

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But it was not a predator that had disturbed the quiet of their off-grid holiday: it was a flurry of text messages bearing the news that Dr Ramsdell had won the Nobel Prize for medicine.

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She said the synagogue attack "disturbed everyone", adding: "These kind of attacks have happened in the past and different people react in different ways."

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She said she was disturbed to learn some of the claims may have been tainted by fraud and expected the county would receive tough questions about how the lawsuits were vetted.

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Richael Keller has always been sensitive to loud commercials, but when thundering streaming-service ads disturbed her sleeping newborn, her reaction was heated enough to blaze a path to the California state Capitol.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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