Provoke vs Perturb - What's the difference?
provoke | perturb | Related terms |
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
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.
Provoke is a related term of perturb.
As verbs the difference between provoke and perturb
is that provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry while perturb is to disturb; to bother or unsettle.provoke
English
Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)