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Perturbing
- verb - cause a celestial body to deviate from a theoretically regular orbital motion, especially as a result of interposed or extraordinary gravitational pull; "The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet"
- 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"
- disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed; "She was rather perturbed by the news that her father was seriously ill"
- disturb or interfere with the usual path of an electron or atom; "The electrons were perturbed by the passing ion"
- throw into great confusion or disorder; "Fundamental Islamicists threaten to perturb the social order in Algeria and Egypt"
Perversely
- adverb - deliberately deviant; "his perversely erotic notions"
- in a contrary disobedient manner
Perversion
- noun - a curve that reverses the direction of something; "the tendrils of the plant exhibited perversion"; "perversion also shows up in kinky telephone cords"
- an aberrant sexual practice;
- the action of perverting something (turning it to a wrong use); "it was a perversion of justice"
Perversity
- noun - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline
- deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism"
Perversive
- adjective - tending to corrupt or pervert
Perverting
- verb - change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"
- corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
- practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words"
Pesterment
- - The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry.
Petaurista
- noun - very large Asiatic flying squirrels
Petrarchan
- unknown - Type of sonnet named after a 14th-century Italian poet.
Phalaropes
- noun - small sandpiper-like shorebird having lobate toes and being good swimmers; breed in the Arctic and winter in the tropics