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Meanings of throw out of kilter in English

Throw into great confusion or disorder.

Synonyms
Examples for "perturb"
Examples for "perturb"
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.
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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
However, one detail perturbed him: suppose autopsies revealed the presence of arsenic?
In Cold Blood
1
Has anything happened to derange our plans, or prevent my father's escape?
The King's Highway
2
Exciting stimulants and condiments weaken and irritate his nerves and derange the circulation.
Plain Facts for Old and Young
3
Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
The Book of the Damned
4
This does not derange the numbers, since the order of succession is observed.
A Book for All Readers / An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Pres...
5
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 English
1
However, his rhythm was thrown out of kilter by the incessant banging of the war protestors' drums.
Agent 6
2
With Sakharov's death, that vast part of the world whose center is Moscow was thrown out of kilter.
The new yorker
3
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
4
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