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Perturb

pəˈtəːb

Perturb definitions

verb

Inflections:

perturb perturbed perturbing perturbs

make (someone) anxious or unsettled

"they were perturbed by her capricious behaviour"

Synonyms:
worry upset unsettle disturb concern trouble make anxious make uneasy make fretful disquiet upset worried unsettled disturbed concerned troubled anxious ill at ease uneasy fretful disquieted
subject (a system, moving object, or process) to an influence tending to alter its normal or regular state or path

"nuclear weapons could be used to perturb the orbit of an asteroid"