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# perturbed

«perturbed» in Mova's school dictionary: **Worried and unsettled, so that you cannot feel calm** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (perturbed; verb perturb, perturbs, perturbed, perturbing)

### meaning for a pupil

Worried and unsettled, so that you cannot feel calm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perturbed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a mother or hero who is perturbed sees trouble coming

### examples

- She was perturbed by the strange noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perturbed/#x1)
- The children looked perturbed when the lights went out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perturbed/#x2)
- Mum was perturbed that we were late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perturbed/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perturbed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perturbed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.