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Perturbed   /pərtˈərbd/   Listen
Perturbed

adjective
1.
Thrown into a state of agitated confusion; ('rattled' is an informal term).  Synonyms: flustered, hot and bothered, rattled.


Perturb

verb
1.
Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.  Synonyms: cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge.
2.
Disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom.
3.
Cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull.
4.
Throw into great confusion or disorder.  Synonyms: derange, throw out of kilter.



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"Perturbed" Quotes from Famous Books



... Romans and all the varied tribes which were ranging in perturbed whirl through unhappy Gaul laid aside their lesser enmities and met in common cause against this terrible invader. The battle of Chalons, 451,[4] was the most tremendous struggle in which Turanian was ever matched ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various
... of outward warfare. All the arrows in the quiver of his noble wrath are spent. Now on the wrong and shame of the land he looks down with deep, calm, superior eyes, sorrowful, indeed, and reproving, but no longer perturbed. His hot, eloquent, prophetic spirit now breathes freely, lurk in the winds of the moment what poison may; for he has attained to those finer airs of eternity which hide ever, like the luminiferous ether, in this atmosphere of ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 • Various
... hero and the heroine. The Hilberys subscribed to a library, which delivered books on Tuesdays and Fridays, and Katharine did her best to interest her parents in the works of living and highly respectable authors; but Mrs. Hilbery was perturbed by the very look of the light, gold-wreathed volumes, and would make little faces as if she tasted something bitter as the reading went on; while Mr. Hilbery would treat the moderns with a curious elaborate banter such as one might apply to the antics of a promising ...
— Night and Day • Virginia Woolf
... nearly an hour later when Denzil entered the saloon hurriedly, pale and perturbed of aspect, with Dorothy and her ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon
... Tour d'Azyr's friends looked grave, perturbed. It was really incredible to find this great gentleman so far forgetting himself as to descend to argument with a canaille of a lawyer-swordsman. And what was worse, it was an argument in which he ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini


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