Word Meanings - PERTURB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

disturb, fr. turba a disorder: cf. OF. perturber. See Per-, and 1. To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer. 2. To disorder; to confuse. Sir T. Browne.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PERTURB)

• Convulse
• Agitate
• shake
• perturb
• disturb

Related words: (words related to PERTURB)

• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• PERTURBATIVE
  Tending to cause perturbation; disturbing. Sir J. Herschel.
• PERTURB
  disturb, fr. turba a disorder: cf. OF. perturber. See Per-, and 1. To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer. 2. To disorder; to confuse. Sir T. Browne.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• PERTURBER
  One who, or that which, perturbs, or cause perturbation.
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• PERTURBATION
  A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other. Newcomb. (more
• SHAKER
  A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms
• CONVULSE
  1. To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame.
• PERTURBATE
  Perturbed; agitated.
• SHAKERISM
  Doctrines of the Shakers.
• AGITATEDLY
  In an agitated manner.
• SHAKEFORK
  A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
• PERTURBATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets. "The perturbational theory." Sir J. Herschel.
• PERTURBABLE
  Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.
• PERTURBATOR
  A perturber.
• DISTURB
  desturber, destourber, fr. L. disturbare, disturbatum; dis- + turbare 1. To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms
• PERTURBED
  Agitated; disturbed; troubled. Shak. -- Per*turb"ed*ly, adv.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• EFFLAGITATE
  To ask urgently. Cockeram.
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• IMPERTURBABLY
  In an imperturbable manner; calmly. C. Bronté.
• OVERAGITATE
  To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall.
• IMPERTURBATION
  Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.
• IMPERTURBED
  Not perturbed.
• FLAGITATE
  To importune; to demand fiercely or with passion. Carcyle.
• IMPERTURBABLE
  Incapable of being disturbed or disconcerted; as, imperturbable gravity.