Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To perturb.
- Perturbed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To perturb.
- adjective rare Perturbed; agitated.
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- verb transitive (
dated ) Toperturb .
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Examples
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Rightly or wrongly (if it can be a matter of opinion), they fail to see any manifestation of ultimate advantage to themselves in the arrival of a troop of armed strangers who demand from them food (even though it be on payment) and perturbate their most intimate family ties.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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In this paper, we perturbate these connections to work out whether they play a role in improving the neural representation in the LMC output to repeated naturalistic contrast patterns
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Anton Nikolaev et al. 2009
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Quae dein iratior iam Nauflftrata clamans incufat coram marito, an quidq. — fenes Bentl. fiios quofdam Codd. fecutus perturbate adfcribit Phor - mioni, honeftius putans v. 12 dici ab homine, quam a femina.
Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae sex novissime recognitae cum selecta varietate lectionum et ... 1779
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If therefore it be inferred that A J D = a J d. i'his inference is fM to he made ex sequo perturbate. i6S The ELEMENTS BookV.
Instructions given in the drawing school established by the Dublin society 1769
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