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Meanings of perturb in English

Portuguese
causar perturbação
Catalan
inquietar
Spanish
inquietar

Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed.

causar perturbação

Throw into great confusion or disorder.

Usage of perturb in English
1
Rarely need the complaisance that audacity evokes perturb the diffident man; since
Hints for Lovers
2
Once more Pike ignored the younger man's clumsy attempt to perturb him.
Star trek movie tie-in
3
The information did not perturb her, and her coolness was a challenge.
Smoke Bellew
4
In the summer she came home like this, sweet-natured and impossible to perturb.
Romancing miss bronte: a novel
5
Stents made of high-Z materials will inevitably perturb the dose distribution of IVBT.
Pubmed
6
And how, indeed, beyond all any, that stormy and perturb'd age!
Complete Prose Works / Specimen Days and Collect, November Bough...
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Moreover, such methods often require cell synchronization, which can perturb the pathway under study.
Pubmed
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However small, they're substantial enough to perturb the rings nearby.
Wired
9
Environmental stresses including freezing may perturb these mats, which usually have only annual character.
Pubmed
10
The pancreas is affected in four mutants, all of which also perturb anterior intestine.
Pubmed
11
We describe nine mutations that perturb development of these organs.
Pubmed
12
I am sure they perturb you as much as me.
The Irish Times
13
Viruses are known to perturb host cellular metabolism to enable their replication and spread.
Pubmed
14
Measurements of the location of an electron will perturb the matter-wave of the electron.
The Physics of Superheroes
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In the heavenly aerial beauty, (after the perturb'd winds and the storms,)
Leaves of Grass
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It even failed to perturb the hypersensitive censors of Singapore.
The Guardian
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