All 3 Uses of
perturb
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- He pointed to a chair opposite him, at a small table, and I sat down, feeling greatly perturbed.†
Chpt 12perturbed = disturbed or made uneasy
- Raoul went home, greatly perturbed at all that he had heard.†
Chpt 13 *
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- He looked at me as if I were the devil and answered only in a few incoherent sentences, which showed, however—and that was the main thing—the extent of the perturbation which O. G., in his time, had brought into that already very restless life (for M. Poligny was what people call a man of pleasure).†
Chpt Epil. *
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