PERTURBED

flustered, hot and bothered, perturbed, rattled

(adjective) thrown into a state of agitated confusion; (‘rattled’ is an informal term)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

perturbed

simple past tense and past participle of perturb

Adjective

perturbed (comparative more perturbed, superlative most perturbed)

Disturbed; flustered.

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• deperturb

Source: Wiktionary


Per*turbed", a.

Definition: Agitated; disturbed; troubled. Shak.

– Per*turb"ed*ly, adv.

PERTURB

Per*turb", v. t. Etym: [L. perturbare, perturbatum; per + turbare to disturb, fr. turba a disorder: cf. OF. perturber. See Per-, and Turbid.]

1. To disturb; to agitate; to vex; to trouble; to disquiet. Ye that . . . perturb so my feast with crying. Chaucer.

2. To disorder; to confuse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂ­a Municipal de ChinchinĂĄ (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂ­var, ChinchinĂĄ, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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