disturn

English

Etymology

From Old French destourner, French détourner. See detour.

Verb

disturn (third-person singular simple present disturns, present participle disturning, simple past and past participle disturned)

1. (obsolete) To turn aside.
   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

     And glad was to diſturn that furious
     Stream Of War on us

References

“disturn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sturnid