[
UK
/pətˈɜːb/
]
[ US /pɝˈtɝb/ ]
[ US /pɝˈtɝb/ ]
VERB
-
disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill -
cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet -
throw into great confusion or disorder
Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order -
disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion
How To Use perturb In A Sentence
- This 31-day period of perturbations probably has a great deal more to do with things that go bump in the night than many care to admit in front of their friends and family.
- What I find highly ironic and, indeed, perturbing, is that U.S. trade laws have in their application proven much more effective in inhibiting legitimate, cross-border, long-standing supplier-customer transactions carried on within a Canada-U.S. free trade environment than they have in dealing with these "dump and jump" boatloads of predatory imports. Free Trade With the U.S.Only in a Dream World
- I was perturbed at his apparent immaturity.
- Other: It's not nonperturbative quantization of diffeomorphism-invariant gauge theory. Slimbo-Poll: It's Not Rocket Science
- He is also perturbed by the fact that no meaningful debate is being made on this illogical act of film censorship.
- Fifteen years later when I revisited the issue, I was still perturbed.
- He was particularly perturbed that he had no recollection of even seeing the wine, let alone tasting it.
- NCIS was perturbed at the end of last season, and the pendulum is slowly returning to status quo. Prone and supine : Bev Vincent
- Also the pleasures of the eye consist in a certain equality of colour: for light, the most glorious of all colours, is made by equal operation of the object; whereas colour is (perturbed, that is to say) unequal light, as hath been said chap. II, sect. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
- The failure of a laboratory's computer system has the potential to disrupt work flow, compromise business interests, and delay or perturb patient care.
