Lewis Short
(verb) : dis-turbo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To drive asunder, to separate by violence, to throw into disorder, disturb.
* Lit.
* In gen. (rarely): vidistis contionem gladiis disturbari,Cic. Mil. 33 fin.: sortes,id. Div. 1, 34 fin.: freta (Auster),Sen. Hippol. 1012. —Far more freq. and class. (but not in the Aug. poets)
* Trop., to frustrate, thwart, ruin: at nunc disturba quas statuisti machinas,Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 137: vitae societatem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111; cf. concordiam,Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 19 ed. Gerl. (Orat. L. Philippi); so, disturbare atque pervertere legem,Cic. Agr. 2, 37, 101: judicium tollere ac disturbare,id. Sull. 5, 15; cf. ib. 25, 71: rem,to hinder, prevent,id. Fam. 11, 21 fin.; cf. nuptias,Ter. And. 1, 2, 11.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary