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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for perturbed

thrown into a state of agitated confusion

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"'Perturbed' referring, no doubt," she rejoined, "to the sensational booklets peculiar to the Rail.
So he sat at table, perturbed by his own unfitness and at the same time charmed by all that went on about him.
More than that, he saw from her tone that she was not even perturbed at that, but as it were said straight out to him: "Yes, it's shut up, and so it must be, and will be in future." Now he experienced a feeling such as a man might have, returning home and finding his own house locked up.
The supercilious glance which accompanied her ironically polite speech roused Polly, who answered with sudden color and the kindling of the eyes that always betrayed a perturbed spirit, "I don't think many of us would enjoy that selfish sort of peace, while little children starve, and girls no older than us kill themselves because their dreadful poverty leaves them no choice but sin or death."
Polly was never too sad, perturbed, or lazy to sing, for it was almost as easy to her as breathing, and seemed the most natural outlet for her emotions.
But most people say that these visions arose from the thought -- you will not understand me -- from the brain; from the perturbed angularity of the Seer.
His own mind is in a very perturbed state, and it is best he should not see you till you are calmer."
topkP (D) is the frequent pattern set mined from the original transaction dataset and topkP ([bar.D]) is the perturbed dataset.
Two experiments, named the control and perturbed experiments, were performed.
Despite many news stories in the print media about the poor condition of the road, the CDA is least perturbed over the situation.
The departures and biases for the perturbed runs diverge from the control run only for those data types that are sensitive to upper tropospheric humidity.
Akram and Amin (2012) used a technique to solve fourth order perturbed BVPs by quintic spline.
Sheppard and Trujillo suggest a Super Earth or an even larger object at hundreds of AU could create the shepherding effect seen in the orbits of these objects, which are too distant to be perturbed significantly by any of the known planets.
Singular perturbed differential equations are often used as mathematical models describing processes in biological sciences and physics, such as genetic engineering and the El Nino phenomenon of atmospheric physics [1].