Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Agitated; disturbed; troubled.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
perturb . - adjective Disturbed; flustered.
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- adjective thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (`rattled' is an informal term)
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Examples
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The bonne turned again to survey me, and seeing my eyes wide open, and, I suppose, deeming their expression perturbed and excited, she put down her knitting.
Villette 2003
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The bonne turned again to survey me, and seeing my eyes wide open, and, I suppose, deeming their expression perturbed and excited, she put down her knitting.
Villette Charlotte Bront�� 1835
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Her eye was restless, her cheek pale and thin, her whole expression perturbed and sorrowful.
Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. Margaret Fuller 1830
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Also the pleasures of the eye consist in a certain equality of colour: for light, the most glorious of all colours, is made by equal operation of the object; whereas colour is (perturbed, that is to say) unequal light, as hath been said chap. II, sect.
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The parliamentary group said it was also "perturbed" Mr. King hadn't been informed about the contents of the government's white paper two weeks before it was published and urged Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the exchequer, to make sure papers on regulatory reform are jointly published.
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In the letter, the cardinal said he was "perturbed" Mr. Follieri and his company were representing themselves as having Vatican ties.
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Sicelo Mabaso from the GNTA said he was "perturbed" by the incidences of taxi violence.
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Mafikeng executive mayor Jane Matsomela said the municipality was "perturbed" by the reports.
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The committee said it was "perturbed" by the IEC's failure to acknowledge responsibility or express regret for the manner in which taxpayers 'money had been wasted.
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She also wrote on her blog that many elderly and disabled people may feel "perturbed" to hear that the director of public prosecutions will clarify the law on assisted suicide.
Epolitix News 2010
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