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 General (24 matching dictionaries)
- perturb: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- perturb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- perturb: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- perturb: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- perturb: Wordnik [home, info]
- perturb: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- perturb: Wiktionary [home, info]
- perturb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- perturb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- perturb: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Perturb, perturb: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- perturb: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- perturb: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Perturb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- perturb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- perturb: Rhymezone [home, info]
- perturb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- perturb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- perturb: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- perturb: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- perturb: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- perturb: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- perturb: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- perturb: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- perturb: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- perturb: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- perturb: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Science (1 matching dictionary)
- perturb: Nine Planets Glossary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (perturb)
▸ verb: 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")
▸ verb: disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom ("The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion")
▸ verb: throw into great confusion or disorder ("Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt")
▸ verb: 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")
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