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adjective
- 1. causing anxiety or concern; unsettling: "his whereabouts remain a perturbing mystery"
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verb [ T ] formal uk / pəˈtɜːb / us / pɚˈtɝːb / 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. come back to bite someone idiom. disturb. frighten someone/something away/off. get/go beyond a joke idiom.
: causing worry, upset, or concern : unsettling. … the absence of mail was somehow just as perturbing as its presence, and it made him feel strangely on edge. Bentley Little. Rowland had an odd feeling … that she might make, later, some perturbing discovery. Henry James. perturbingly adverb.
verb [ T ] formal uk / pəˈtɜːb / us / pɚˈtɝːb / 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. come back to bite someone idiom. disturb. frighten someone/something away/off. get/go beyond a joke idiom.
PERTURB | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of perturb in English. perturb. verb [ T ] formal uk / pəˈtɜːb / us / pɚˈtɝːb / Add to word list. to worry someone: News of the arrest perturbed her greatly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing anxiety and worry. alarmingly. bite. catch up with someone.
to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet, unsettle; to throw into confusion : disorder; to cause to experience a perturbation… See the full definition
adjective. causing distress or worry or anxiety. “a revelation that was most perturbing ”. synonyms: distressful, distressing, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying. heavy. marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness.
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. If you're having trouble getting used to the word perturb, you're in luck! It's similar in meaning to the verb "disturb."
1. To disturb or confuse; make uneasy or anxious: I was perturbed by his off-color remarks. 2. a. To cause (a system) to become altered or imbalanced from a normal state: volcanic eruptions that perturbed the climate. b. Physics & Astronomy To cause perturbation in (the orbit of a celestial body, for example) by gravitational interaction.
1. to disturb the composure of; trouble. 2. to throw into disorder. 3. physics, astronomy. to cause (a planet, electron, etc) to undergo a perturbation.
verb. /pəˈtɜːb/ /pərˈtɜːrb/ (formal) Verb Forms. perturb somebody to make somebody worried or anxious synonym alarm. Her sudden appearance did not seem to perturb him in the least. I was perturbed by his lack of interest. Word Origin. Want to learn more?
