Both Uses of
perturb
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor.†
Chpt 9perturbed = disturbed or made uneasy
- It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features.†
Chpt 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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
in physics or astronomy: a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly