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conturbar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • disturb verb To interrupt someone's peace, quiet, or concentration.
  • perturb verb To cause (something) to be physically disordered or disturbed; to cause confusion.

Senses

conturbar is used for these senses in English:

  • disturb (transitive) to confuse a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.
  • perturb To disturb; to bother or unsettle.

disturb — full definition

  1. verb To interrupt someone's peace, quiet, or concentration.
  2. verb To upset or trouble someone emotionally.

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.

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