Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of perturb English)
WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: distressing, distressful, disturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying]
Usage examples of "perturbing".
In the second, distance has no eifect on the perambulator's perturbing effects.
He could compute it only approximately, of course, since he did not know exactly either the masses involved or the perturbing forces, but he thought that he could find his ship again with an electro.
The closeness was heavy in the air again: oppressive, hostile, and then a curiously perturbing fierceness.
A superhuman power, enabling them to sway kings, mayors, and scientists away from perturbing thoughts, diverting them back toward the tracks they had been assigned.