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Perturb vs Fluster - What's the difference?

perturb | fluster |

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

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * perturbation * perturbative

    fluster

    English

    Verb

  • (dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
  • * Macaulay
  • His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
  • (by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
  • He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
  • To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
  • * South
  • The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.

    Derived terms

    * flustered (adjective) * flustering (adjective, present participle)

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