disturn

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English

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Etymology

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From Old French destourner, French détourner. See detour.

Verb

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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

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

Anagrams

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