Word "PERTURB" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
throw into great confusion or disorder
Synonyms:
derange, throw out of kilter
Examples:
Fundamentalists threaten to perturb the social order

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
Synonyms:
cark, disorder, disquiet, distract, trouble, unhinge
Examples:
She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill

Part of Speech:
Verb
Definition:
cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
Examples:
The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet

Crossword Clues for PERTURB

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Clue Source Date
Worry Puzzler Backwords 23 Aug 2025
Worry a Republican in boat The Times Cryptic 24 Jun 2025
Unsettle Newsday 13 Jun 2025
Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be wanted or alarmed. (7)
It may agitate one to be saucy and rub it out (7)
Make someone anxious (7)
Disturb greatly, trouble (7)
Worry Puzzler Backwords 26 Mar 2025
Unsettle, trouble (7)
Expert urbanely suppresses alarm The Times Quick Cryptic 05 Mar 2025
Ruffle a Sikh's headwear, dislodging article
Disquiet greatly (7)
"Are a worry and cheeky," rub out (7)
Agitate The Telegraph Quick 03 Jan 2025
"Cheeky," rub out. It does bother you (7)
"Cheeky," rub out and "ruffle" (7)
Upset, unsettle (7)
Agitate The Telegraph Quick 25 Oct 2024
Alarm bleeper turboprop carries The Telegraph Cryptic 23 Oct 2024
Some skyscraper turbulence to disturb you (7)
Some skyscraper turbulence to distress you (7)
Bother! Rupert has gone off veg! (7)
Worry Puzzler Backwords 17 Jul 2024
Bother with fresh book about ancient city
Cause concern (7) The Guardian Quick 08 Jul 2024
Agitate (7) Puzzler 22 Jun 2024
Throw out of kilter (7) The Guardian Quick 06 Jun 2024
Disquiet (7) The Guardian Speedy 02 Jun 2024
Trouble, bother (PET BURR anagram) (7)
Agitate, disturb (7)
Worry, unnerve The Times Concise 25 May 2024
Volte-face by Caesar's killer leaving us and theatre in dismay
For each to get right in the bath may prove unsettling (7)
Cause anxiety to (7)
You are initially baffled by fresh alarm
Forward, cheeky? Rub the wrong way to put one out! (7)
Agitate, greatly disturb (7)
Make anxious, bother (7)
Disquiet The Guardian Quick 09 Apr 2024
Saucy R&B covers you heard creating trouble (7)
Make anxious or unsettled (7)
Whisper turbulence inside could make them anxious
Make someone anxious or worried
Disturb greatly
Dry sales type flips showing worry (7)
Disturb, make uneasy(7)
Trouble dry salesman recalled (7)
Alarm from a rook trapped in cask The Telegraph Cryptic 08 Sep 2023
Disturb Family Time 15 Jan 2023
Get agitated with return of dry theatre The Times Cryptic 29 Aug 2022
Unsettle New York Times 11 Dec 2021
Upset a bath with last of water in
Agitate dry salesman from the south The Telegraph Toughie 12 Feb 2021
Ruffle characters in dapper turbans
Occasionally in bar, punter weeps over trouble The Telegraph Toughie 26 Nov 2020
Make anxious Thomas Joseph 29 Jul 2020
Kind of wine seller's rising trouble
Worry The Telegraph Quick 04 May 2020
Power mindless Republican held, looking back, is worry
. After every unfinished attempt, boy's upset
Worry for each kind of wine knocked back
Trouble removing edging from aperture, black
Make uneasy or cause to be worried Irish Times Simplex 01 Mar 2019
Each time, rub out trouble The Guardian Quiptic 23 Jul 2018
Each time, rub out trouble
Runs into vicious person with power, retreating in shock
Run a bath to get over upset
Expert urbanely concealing disquiet
Bother each head right in soaking site
Unsettle The Guardian Speedy 02 Sep 2017
Regularly appears to unrobe? That leads to trouble
Disconcert The Guardian Speedy 08 Apr 2017
Rattle Newsday 14 Jan 2017
Make uneasy USA Today 26 Sep 2016
Alarm worried Rupert Bear, initially The Telegraph Cryptic 05 Jan 2016
Make uneasy
Bother LA Times Daily 30 Nov 2015
Disconcert agent over clumsy boat crossing river The Times Cryptic 13 Jul 2015
Forward book bearing 'URGENT', saving man bother The Telegraph Toughie 08 Jul 2015
Unsettle Newsday 14 Jun 2015
Unsettle
Bother
Dry salesman backtracking causes worry
Fluster
Unsettle
Unsettle
Agitate
Agitate
Make anxious
Trouble the mind
Annoy
Disorder
Trouble
Discompose
Disquiet
Disquiet greatly; agitate
Give cause for alarm.
Agitate.
Make uneasy.
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