Dictionary Entry
perturb
perturb is a 7-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet.
- 2transitive verb
To disorder; to confuse.
- 3verb
throw into great confusion or disorder
"Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
Synonyms
- 4verb
disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
"She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- 5verb
cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
"The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
- 6verb
disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
"The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
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