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Perturbing

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Definitions for Perturbing

adjective
causing distress or worry or anxiety
Synonyms
distressing distressful disturbing troubling worrisome worrying
Examples
  1. distressing (or disturbing) news
  2. lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
  3. a disturbing amount of crime
  4. a revelation that was most perturbing
  5. a new and troubling thought
  6. in a particularly worrisome predicament
  7. a worrying situation
  8. a worrying time
verb
disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
Synonyms
perturb unhinge disquiet trouble cark distract disorder
Examples
  1. She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill
verb
disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
Synonyms
perturb
Examples
  1. The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion
verb
cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
Synonyms
perturb
Examples
  1. The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet
verb
throw into great confusion or disorder
Synonyms
perturb derange throw out of kilter
Examples
  1. Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order

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