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- pronunciation:
- pr
tuhrb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
part of speech: |
transitive verb |
inflections: |
perturbs, perturbing, perturbed |
definition 1: |
to cause great disturbance in (the mind); agitate or worry.
His daughter's question about her mother's death perturbed him, and he couldn't understand what made her ask such a thing.- synonyms:
- agitate, disturb, upset
- similar words:
- alarm, discompose, dismay, disquiet, exercise, fluster, jangle, jar, shake, trouble, unsettle, vex, worry
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definition 2: |
to cause great confusion in; derange.
Waking up in a strange hospital bed perturbed the elderly man.- synonyms:
- confound, derange, disorder
- similar words:
- bewilder, confuse, disturb, fluster, perplex, unbalance, upset
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definition 3: |
to disturb the ordinary motion or equilibrium of.
These electrical forces can perturb the biorhythms of mice.- synonyms:
- derange, upset
- similar words:
- disturb, jar, ruffle, trouble, unbalance, unsettle
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related words: |
affect, ail, bother, concern, discomfort, distress, disturb, fuss, jolt, nag, ruffle, stir, trouble, upset, wrench |
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derivations: |
perturbable (adj.), perturbingly (adv.), perturbability (n.) |
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