DISTURBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disturber mean? 

• DISTURBER (noun)
  The noun DISTURBER has 1 sense:

1. a troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion

  Familiarity information: DISTURBER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTURBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A troubler who interrupts or interferes with peace and quiet; someone who causes disorder and commotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("disturber" is a kind of...):

bad hat; mischief-maker; trouble maker; troublemaker; troubler (someone who deliberately stirs up trouble)

 Context examples 

The recollection of what had been done for William was always the most powerful disturber of every decision against Mr. Crawford; and she sat thinking deeply of it till Mary, who had been first watching her complacently, and then musing on something else, suddenly called her attention by saying: I should like to sit talking with you here all day, but we must not forget the ladies below, and so good-bye, my dear, my amiable, my excellent Fanny, for though we shall nominally part in the breakfast-parlour, I must take leave of you here.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Their parties abroad were less varied than before, and at home she had a mother and sister whose constant repinings at the dullness of everything around them threw a real gloom over their domestic circle; and, though Kitty might in time regain her natural degree of sense, since the disturbers of her brain were removed, her other sister, from whose disposition greater evil might be apprehended, was likely to be hardened in all her folly and assurance by a situation of such double danger as a watering-place and a camp.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)