Thesaurus: perturb

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1. v. t. To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.
2. v. t. To disorder; to confuse.
3. v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
4. v. disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
5. v. cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
6. v. throw into great confusion or disorder
7. 1. To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer. 2. To disorder; to confuse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
8. v:100 v. disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed v. disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom v. cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull