interturb

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verb

To disturb.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

verbinterturb (third-person singular simple present interturbs, present participle interturbing, simple past and past participle interturbed)

present singular third person interturbs · participle present interturbing · participle past interturbed · past interturbed

  1. obsoleteTo disturb.

    How unseasonably and unkindly it is, to interturb the State and Church with their Amalekitish onsets, when they are in their extreme pangs of travail with their lives.

    1968, Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
    2 more examples

    And to the intent I would you should not think any ingratitude in me, as also that I might give you occasion to write to me again, as heretofore I have done, even so do I interturb and trouble you with my babbling, but yet having this commodity, that I babble not so much as I was wont to do.

    2005, John Bradford, Aubrey Townsend, The Writings of John Bradford, page 22

    The complaint made against Robert Brerewood, their townclerk, and some others of the city, they think too mean a business to “interturb” the weightier affairs of the Council.

    1967, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I, 1625 [-1649]
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