Perturb vs Fluster - What's the difference?
perturb | fluster |
To disturb; to bother or unsettle.
(physics) To slightly modify the motion of an object.
(astronomy) To modify the motion of a body by exerting a gravitational force.
(mathematics) To modify slightly, such as an equation or value.
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
* Macaulay
(by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
* South
As verbs the difference between perturb and fluster
is that perturb is to disturb; to bother or unsettle while fluster is to make hot and rosy, as with drinking.perturb
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(en verb)Derived terms
* perturbation * perturbativeExternal links
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- His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
- He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
- The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.