skake — meaning in English
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English meaning
- perturb verb To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.
Senses
skake is used for these senses in English:
- perturb To disturb; to bother or unsettle.
perturb — full definition
- verb To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.
- verb To disturb (someone, their mind, etc.) mentally; to bother, trouble, upset.
- 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).
- 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.