unsettle Definition
un·set·tle (-set′'l)
transitive verb -·tled, -·tling
to make unsettled, insecure, or unstable; disturb, displace, disarrange, or disorder
intransitive verb
to become unsettled
unsettle Related Forms
un·set′·tle·ment noun
unsettle Synonyms
unsettle Usage Examples
Object
- player: However, another way of looking at this is that Jimmy was using commendable nous in attempting to unsettle the players.
- bit: Are you just a little bit unsettled by what you have read here are you a true altruist with our interestes at heart?
- people: I managed to really unsettle a few people, which was nice.
- audience: Heather Bell is a fictional character, an actress, whose aim was to create emotion and unsettle the audience.
- mind: Over a hundred years later it still has the power to raise eyebrows and unsettle some tender minds.
- market: Reform on these lines would not unsettle the financial markets, which already accept that the existing rules are untenable.
Subject
- teaching: In the case of the Thessalonians they were being unsettled by some false teaching about the second coming.
- change: There is no inquiry. * I am unsettled by the constant changes within the Interior Ministry.
Preposition: at
time: If your child is unsettled at any time during the morning, we will come and get you from the adult service.
Adjective complement
most: Not quite sure what was up with BB as she was twitchy and unsettled most of the time and permanently latched on - sigh.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: Early in the morning Farrow had been rather unsettled in his manner.
- easily: When she came into Nursery, she had very little language and was very easily unsettled by anything new.
- clearly: The audience, too, was clearly unsettled by some of the paraphernalia of faith, played up to look initially like drug taking.
- still: Memories of his brother's death in particular still unsettle him.
- very: Some children will have been neglected, had very unsettled lives, or have been subject to physical or sexual abuse.
- really: What really unsettled me was, having been treated in such a way, what their agenda really was.
Used with why or when
when: Lou slaps Anita twice and taunts her to hit her back, and is unsettled when she refuses.
Preposition: by
Browse dictionary entries near unsettle
- ‹ unset
- ‹ unselfishness
- ‹ unselfishly
- ‹ unselfish
- ‹ Unseld, Siegfried
- ‹ unseen
- ‹ unseemly
- ‹ unsecured debt
- ‹ unsecured credit
- ‹ unsecured bond
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- unshapen ›
- unsheathe ›
- unsheltered ›
- unshielded twisted pair ›
- unship ›
- unshrinking ›

