Perturbing

Definition: Perturbing

Perturbing

Adjective

1. Causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time".

Date "perturbing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references)

Synonyms: Perturbing

Synonyms: distressful (adj), distressing (adj), disturbing (adj), troubling (adj), worrisome (adj), worrying (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Perturbing

Specialty definitions using "perturbing": climate sensitivity ♦ Nonlinear Dynamics ♦ perturbing force ♦ special perturbations. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Lifting Solutions to Perturbing Problems in C - Algebras (Fields Institute Monographs , Vol 8) (reference) Perturbing spirit (reference) Perturbing the Organism: The Biology of Stressful Experience (John d and Catherine t MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development) (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Although the evidence from clinical trials is insufficient to draw conclusions about the specific benefits of perturbing triglyceride and/or HDL levels, lipid-lowering therapy is an effective strategy in CHD prevention. (references)
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"Perturbing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Perturbing" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	66.67%	4	175,879
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

Expression using "perturbing": perturbing force. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "perturbing": surface-perturbing.
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Language		Translations for "perturbing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		turbullues (disquieting, incendiary, perturber, seditious, turbulent), trazues, shqetësues (anxious, disorderly, disquieting, disturbing, hairy, pesky, pestilent, plaguy, vexatious, worrisome). (various references)

Arabic		‏مقلق (bothering, disconcerting, disquieting, distressful, distressing, disturbing, troublesome, troubling, upsetting, worrisome, worrying). (various references)

Chinese		心绪不宁 (Perturb, Perturbed). (various references)

Danish		perturberende moment (disturbance torque, perturbing torque), forstyrrelsesmoment (disturbance torque, disturbing moment, perturbing torque). (various references)

Dutch		verstoringskoppel (disturbance torque, perturbing torque), storingskoppel (disturbance torque, perturbing torque). (various references)

Finnish		häiriövääntömomentti (disturbance torque, perturbing torque). (various references)

French		troublant. (various references)

German		beunruhigend (alarming, disconcerting, disquieting, disturbing, fazing, flurrying, harassing, perturbingly, uncomfortable, uneasy, unsettling, worrying). (various references)

Greek		διαταρακτική ροπή (disturbance torque, perturbing torque). (various references)

Italian		coppia perturbatrice (disturbance torque, perturbing torque). (various references)

Pig Latin		erturbingpay

Portuguese		par perturbador (disturbance torque, perturbing torque), binário perturbador (disturbance torque, perturbing torque). (various references)

Spanish		perturbador (interferer, interfering signal), inquietante (disquieting, ugly, worrisome). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Perturbing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perduring, perturbinh, peturbing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-g-i-n-p-r-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: erupting, prurient, reputing.
	-3 letters: bringer, bruiter, bruting, burping, burring, grunter, perturb, printer, purring, reprint, runtier, tribune, trueing, turbine, unriper.
	-4 letters: begirt, binger, briner, brunet, bunter, burger, burier, burner, burnet, burnie, engirt, erring, griper, gunite, gurnet, irrupt, pignut, pinger, pruner, pterin, punier, punter, purger, purine, repugn, return, ringer, rubier, ruiner, triune, truing, tubing, turner.
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