perturb
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- v disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed
She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill - v disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom
The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion - v cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull
The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet - v throw into great confusion or disorder
Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt
- The rumours of the riot spread like wildfire and it perturbed the good order of the town.
- Helicopters buzzed overhead, but that didn't much perturb the sentry their sound had filled Uruzgan's night sky for the past two weeks.
- What starts as a morbid parlor game becomes a mesmerizing and grandly entertaining meditation on how horrifically humanity has managed to perturb our little planet, and with .