uproar
 cause a disturbance
to break the law by fighting or behaving extremely noisily in public: 扰乱治安，破坏秩序
His girlfriend was also arrested for allegedly causing a disturbance.
a condition in which someone is not thinking or behaving normally because of mental or emotional problems:
The state spent close to $6 million on prescription drugs - the bulk of which were used to treat emotional or mental disturbances.
There are many degrees of mental frailty or disturbance, ranging from mild confusion to Alzheimer's disease.

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abuzz
bang something out
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bash something out
blast
boisterously
brouhaha
clamour
clatter
explosive
loudly
noisy
rackety
resonant
ring out
ring with something
rowdily
rowdiness
rowdy
strident

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disturbance | American Dictionary

disturbance
noun
us/dɪˈstɜr·bəns/
[ C ]
something that interrupts you, esp. something loud or causing trouble:
You must take care of yourself and avoid upsetting disturbances.
[ C ] earth science
A disturbance is also something that affects usual wind conditions:
The disturbance became a typhoon in the Philippine Sea and headed due west.

Examples of disturbance

disturbance
Thus, individuals experiencing low strain are hypothesized to have a lower than average risk of illness and psychological disturbance.
Unfortunately, complaints returned due to a disturbance of rhythm.
The reference and disturbance signal is represented by r and d, respectively.
Every natural system is subject to regular disturbances; those that have survived indeed must have built up some degree of resilience.
The effects of seasonal drought on background canopy-gap disturbance in the tropics are expected to be substantially compounded by the effects of major disturbances.
Persistent psychological disturbance was related not so much to personal loss as to the degree of damage suffered by the community as a whole.
Alternatively, it is possible that a temporal processing disturbance alone is sufficient to explain semantic priming dysfunction in this population.
The disturbance was higher for the exposed zone, where the crown cover of emergent trees was not closed.
A mild disturbance event, the treefall of a single or several trees, would favour the suppressed-sapling strategy.
The modelling confirmed that contemporary disturbance and environmental factors measured in the field are poor predictors of historical vegetation transitions on rain-forest boundaries.
At later times these 'passive' modes become visible as pronounced wings in the disturbance spectrum in figure 10.
Furthermore, some types of communication disturbance may be more reactive than others and this may reflect different underlying processes.
In that disturbance, 10% of the boles were damaged and 15 months' equivalent of pine needle litter fell.
The presence of the cooler component of electrons has a significant effect on plasma disturbances.
Her depression resolved after a year, and she was entered into a special school for children with emotional disturbance.
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Collocations withdisturbance

disturbance

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anthropogenic disturbance
There is hence a clear need for studies that focus on the relationship between anthropogenic disturbance and amphibian community structure and composition.
atmospheric disturbance
The noise, dust and other types of atmospheric disturbance will make a mockery of it.
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