Usage of "throw out of kilter"

Throw into great confusion or disorder.

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Examples for "perturb"

Examples for "perturb"

Rarely need the complaisance that audacity evokes perturb the diffident man; since 
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Once more Pike ignored the younger man's clumsy attempt to perturb him. 
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The information did not perturb her, and her coolness was a challenge. 
 Smoke Bellew 

In the summer she came home like this, sweet-natured and impossible to perturb. 
 Romancing miss bronte: a novel 

However, one detail perturbed him: suppose autopsies revealed the presence of arsenic? 
 In Cold Blood 

Has anything happened to derange our plans, or prevent my father's escape? 
 The King's Highway 

Exciting stimulants and condiments weaken and irritate his nerves and derange the circulation. 
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Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it. 
 The Book of the Damned 

This does not derange the numbers, since the order of succession is observed. 
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This action tends to derange the parts and makes large bearings a necessity. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891 

Usage of throw out of kilter in anglès

However, his rhythm was thrown out of kilter by the incessant banging of the war protestors' drums. 
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With Sakharov's death, that vast part of the world whose center is Moscow was thrown out of kilter. 
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His team identified networks of hundreds of genes that appear to be thrown out of kilter when mice are fed a high-fat diet. 
 Reuters 

Because the Government does not want to get caught with its figures being thrown out of kilter by a no-deal Bre(...) 
 The Irish Times 

Meanings of throw out of kilter in anglès