Disturbance and Incident

Disturbance

Disturbance noun - A state of noisy, confused activity.

Show all Definitions

Incident and disturbance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Incident" instead a noun "Disturbance".

Incident noun - A public disturbance.

Usage example: the police investigated an incident at the bus station

Show all Definitions

Disturbance and incident are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Disturbance" instead a noun "Incident".

related	related disturbance	related incident
initial	initial disturbance	initial incident
entire	entire disturbance	entire incident
massive	massive disturbance	massive incident
Other adjectives: big, serious, little, major, further, mysterious, unusual, strange, latest, earlier, magical.

Side note on "Pressure Point": Perhaps aware of some of the rookie officer's shortcomings, Reed and Malloy are calm with him both during the shooting incident and an earlier landlord-tenant disturbance.

Source: Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop

Cite this Source

Incident and Disturbance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/disturbance/incident

Disturbance & Incident. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/disturbance/incident>.

Incident or Disturbance. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/disturbance/incident.

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "disturbance" and "incident" have occurred on timeline