All 10 Uses of
perturb
in
The Idiot
- Pavlicheff's son!" cried the prince, much perturbed.†
Chpt 2.7 *perturbed = disturbed or made uneasy
- Now that he was in the midst of a talk they became more than ever anxious and perturbed.†
Chpt 4.7
- The prince's condition during those days was strange and perturbed.†
Chpt 4.9
- Totski himself, who had the reputation of being a capital talker, and was usually the life and soul of these entertainments, was as silent as any on this occasion, and sat in a state of, for him, most uncommon perturbation.†
Chpt 1.13
- He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one; and he felt a craving for solitude, to be alone with his thoughts and his emotions, and to give himself up to them passively.†
Chpt 2.5
- The old man was in a state of great mental perturbation.†
Chpt 2.11
- He immediately judged from the faces of his daughters and Prince S. that there was a thunderstorm brewing, and he himself already bore evidences of unusual perturbation of mind.†
Chpt 3.3
- But the prince's mental perturbation increased every moment.†
Chpt 3.7
- He tried to get upon his feet again, but the old man still restrained him, gazing at him with increasing perturbation as he went on.†
Chpt 4.7
- On the contrary, she only added to his mental perturbation as the evening went on.†
Chpt 4.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(perturb as in: she was perturbed) to disturb in mind or make uneasy
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) in physics or astronomy: a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly