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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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
Each time, rub out trouble The Guardian Quiptic 23 Jul 2018
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
Trouble
Disorder
Discompose
Disquiet
Disquiet greatly; agitate
Make uneasy.
Agitate.
Give cause for alarm.
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