Word Finder - perturbed

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To disturb; to bother or unsettle.

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To slightly modify the motion of an object.

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To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force.

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To modify slightly, such as an equation or value.

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Disturbed; flustered.

He nodded, obviously perturbed about something.

Even during this perturbed time he prosecuted his studies and teaching.

The vague stir of these movements had perturbed Mutesa, and they were regarded with deep suspicion by his successor, Mwanga.

After a while he re-entered it as if to snuff the candles, and, seeing the prince was lying on the sofa, looked at him, noticed his perturbed face, shook his head, and going up to him silently kissed him on the shoulder and left the room without snuffing the candles or saying why he had entered.

Gustavus, naturally suspicious, was much perturbed by the innovation, and warned all his border officials to be watchful and prepare for the worst.

She, seeing herself surrounded by such brilliant and polite young men, beamed with satisfaction, try as she might to hide it, and perturbed as she evidently was each time her husband moved in his sleep behind her.

Dean frowned, perturbed at being discovered scrounging through Shipton's belongings, but he continued.

He now crossed the Black Sea to Kaffa, then mainly occupied by the Genoese, and apparently the first Christian city he had seen, for he was much perturbed by the bell-ringing.

Carmen glanced up to find Alex watching her with a perturbed expression.

The Episcopalians, in this period, were nearly as much perturbed as the Presbyterians, by questions as to the election of bishops in relation to their exiled king, and by the introduction of ritualism in the shape of " the usages."

Fred strolled in, perturbed that his computer was still being used, this time by Joseph Dawkins, who was checking his e-mail.

The model provides a useful, yet simple tool for modeling of the perturbed ionosphere.

There were gasps and slight moans from the eight against the wall, and this perturbed our captor.

S Langdon & IG Graham 2001 Boundary integral methods for singularly perturbed boundary value problems.

Much as i usually look forward to the fantastic culinary delights that usually descend from your kitchen, am feeling slightly perturbed.

He, being nearly finished, was obviously deeply perturbed.

Tim got a towel under me and was rather perturbed when I informed him that the baby was coming " now!

It is clear, however, that the flow is severely perturbed by the enhanced ionospheric conductivity caused by particle precipitation into the E-region.

We are also seriously perturbed by the definition of " best interests " which is very wooly.

I don't get road rage, I just get perturbed.

The faces of those who were not conferring together were pale and perturbed.

The perturbed wave-function reaching the telescope aperture for this case is given by setting in Equation 1.8.

The question that had perturbed Pierre on the Mozhaysk hill and all that day now seemed to him quite clear and completely solved.

The rest of the climbers followed in the truck but Ryland declined to join them, turning a perturbed eye to Bird Song.

Wasn't this the man who never seemed to get perturbed about anything - who had confessed to loving her?

The count was more perturbed than ever by the condition of his affairs, which called for some decisive action.

Quinn, Martha and especially Betsy looked perturbed at me for not updating them on my tete-a-tete with Howie but that could wait.

He had been weak enough to pay serious attention to a story about a ghost which haunted a house in Cock Lane, and had actually gone himself, with some of his friends, at one in the morning, to St John's Church, Clerkenwell, in the hope of receiving a communication from the perturbed spirit.

Both Zeller and Hegel remark upon the difference between the calm of ancient scepticism and the perturbed state of mind evinced by many modern sceptics.