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buair — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • grieve verb To feel deep sorrow, especially after a loss.
  • perturb verb To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.
  • vex verb To annoy or irritate someone.

Senses

buair is used for these senses in English:

  • grieve (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
  • perturb To disturb; to bother or unsettle.
  • vex (transitive) To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.

grieve — full definition

  1. verb To feel deep sorrow, especially after a loss.
  2. verb To cause someone sorrow or distress.

perturb — full definition

  1. verb To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.
  2. verb To disturb (someone, their mind, etc.) mentally; to bother, trouble, upset.
  3. verb Of a celestial body: to modify the motion or orbit of (another celestial body) by exerting a gravitational force; hence (physics), to slightly modify (the motion of an object).
  4. verb To slightly modify (a set of equations or their solutions), producing deviations from a simple, easily solvable problem, in order to find an approximate solution to a problem that is more difficult to solve or otherwise unsolvable.