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verb
- 1. make (someone) anxious or unsettled: "they were perturbed by her capricious behaviour"
- 2. subject (a system, moving object, or process) to an influence tending to alter its normal or regular state or path: technical "nuclear weapons could be used to perturb the orbit of an asteroid"
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Perturb is a verb that means to worry someone or to disturb something. Learn how to use it in different contexts with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
Perturb means to cause to be worried or upset, to throw into confusion, or to cause a perturbation. See synonyms, examples, word history, and usage of perturb in a sentence.
Perturb means to disturb or disquiet greatly in mind, to throw into disorder, or to cause perturbation in the orbit of a celestial body. Learn more about its origin, usage, and related words from Dictionary.com.
Definition of perturb verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
To perturb is to bug or bother someone by confusing them or throwing them off balance. You can try, but it's almost impossible to perturb the guards outside Buckingham Palace.
Perturb means to disturb or confuse, or to cause a system or orbit to change. See the origin, usage, synonyms, and translations of the word perturb in different contexts.
PERTURB | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of perturb in English. perturb. verb [ T ] formal us / pɚˈtɝːb / uk / pəˈtɜːb / Add to word list. to worry someone: News of the arrest perturbed her greatly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing anxiety and worry. agitate. alarmingly. bite. catch up with someone.
