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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disquiet.

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Examples

  • This flash of nature, incongruous, disquiets the woman.

    COCOONED • by J.A. Matthews 2009

  • It is dazzling how the cumulative effect of these efforts are, without our knowing, neutralizing their opposite and dulling the effects of that which repels and disquiets us.

    Saul Segan: The Overlooked Obvious Saul Segan 2010

  • I love to stare intently into the eyes of dogs and cats – it disquiets them.

    Hard wired to the past | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • How fluttering fear disquiets me, lest haply my mother have gotted some mischance, in quest of whom I come, for she hath been long absent from home.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • How fluttering fear disquiets me, lest haply my mother have gotted some mischance, in quest of whom I come, for she hath been long absent from home.

    The Suppliants 2008

  • But predictions are what they are, and one final statistic from the economists 'survey reassures as much as it disquiets: some 68% said the credit crisis and related market turmoil was about half over, but the majority (60%) has been saying that since the question was first asked in September.

    Stimulus-Proof 2008

  • And to compel them more to stand in awe of him, [6370] he sends and cures diseases, disquiets their spirits (as Cyprian saith), torments and terrifies their souls, to make them adore him: and all his study, all his endeavour is to divert them from true religion to superstition: and because he is damned himself, and in an error, he would have all the world participate of his errors, and be damned with him.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • While some of their points may be worth discussing, they are so over-the-top rabid foam-mouths that even conceeding they POSSIBLY have a point disquiets me.

    “What if your mother was pro-choice?” 2006

  • He then represented the family disquiets and dismal tragedies produced from such mercenary and compulsive matches, and, in conclusion related the story of Don Diego and his daughter, which when the merchant heard, he started up with marks of terror in his countenance, and, throwing up the casement, called upon

    The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom 2004

  • Now, the new production, “Not About Heroes” disquiets our settled views of war.

    Archive 2004-11-01 2004

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