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Pertain
- verb - be a part or attribute of
- be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
Perturb
- 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"
- 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"
Pesters
- verb - annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer"
- Bully or torment
- nag
Pestled
- verb - grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar; "pestle the garlic"
Pestles
- noun - a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar
- a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
- grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar; "pestle the garlic"
- machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores
Petters
- noun - a lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one; "they are heavy petters"
Pettier
- adjective - (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"
- contemptibly narrow in outlook; "petty little comments"; "disgusted with their small-minded pettiness"
- inferior in rank or status; "the junior faculty"; "a lowly corporal"; "petty officialdom"; "a subordinate functionary"
- Most trivial
Petties
- noun - larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale)