Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To disturb; disquiet.
  • Unquiet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To disquiet.

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  • verb obsolete, transitive To disquiet.

Etymologies

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Latin inquietare: compare French inquieter. See quiet.

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Examples

  • Je pars un peu inquiet car je ne vois personne pour la releve mais ma mere arrive et m'engueule car c elle qui est venue me chercher et il faut 45 minutes de route et elle prend à 13h00 ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009

  • J'ai entrouvert les volets, jeté un coup d'oeil a la meteo pour voir la temperature et je suis parti au boulot tres inquiet.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2009

  • And back thenI knew people with tenuredfull-time jobs inquiet collegelibrarieswith graduateeducational technology degrees.

    Is majoring in liberal arts a waste of money? 2009

  • ‘Why are you pacing the floor up and down up and down pacing dear Womlbs’ I inquiet.

    A Spaniard in the Works John Lennon 2000

  • Like a hot iron in her brain, a fiery brand of sanity after the dense, thick, solid, infinite inquiet soundlessness.

    the ship who sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969

  • Like a hot iron in her brain, a fiery brand of sanity after the dense, thick, solid, infinite inquiet soundlessness.

    The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969

  • 'Why are you pacing the floor up and down up and down pacing dear Womlbs' I inquiet.

    A Spaniard In The Works Lennon, John, 1940-1980 1965

  • The vague inquiet began to deepen into serious misgiving.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • But when the meal was over and there was still no sign of her, he began to be vaguely inquiet, and, taking up his hat, he walked out into the tranquil brightness of the summer evening, and called from house to house to ask after her.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • _ "The old chap collapsed on my shoulder and cried like a baby, saying over and over:" _J'étais si inquiet: j'étais si inquiet!

    A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918

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