Definition of "perturbed" [per•turbed]

• Simple past tense and past participle of perturb. (verb)
• Disturbed; flustered. (adjective)

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• "The bonne turned again to survey me, and seeing my eyes wide open, and, I suppose, deeming their expression perturbed and excited, she put down her knitting."
• "Her eye was restless, her cheek pale and thin, her whole expression perturbed and sorrowful."
• "Also the pleasures of the eye consist in a certain equality of colour: for light, the most glorious of all colours, is made by equal operation of the object; whereas colour is (perturbed, that is to say) unequal light, as hath been said chap. II, sect."