What's the difference between discompose and unsettle?
Discompose
Definition:
(v. t.) To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.
(v. t.) To throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate.
(v. t.) To put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace.
Example Sentences:
(1) One chronically discomposed self-structure, defining itself as polluted and helpless, trembles with the appalling imagery of historical and imminent community disasters.
(2) She is incompetent, foolish, and no good in a sickroom – "coming into the room with an elaborate caution, calculated to discompose the nerves of an invalid rather more than the entry of a horse-soldier at full gallop" – very unhelpful given the amount of illness and nursing occurring in the oeuvre.
Unsettle
Definition:
(v. t.) To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
(v. i.) To become unsettled or unfixed; to be disordered.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may unsettle Exxon Mobil a little but they are pretty experienced now and I don’t think they would derail anything,” she said.
(2) Some are enthused about the opportunities this brings; others find it deeply unsettling.
(3) Uncertainty over ‘Brexit’, weak overseas growth and financial market volatility are all creating an unsettling business environment and point to downside risks to the economy in 2016.” The official figures follow mixed reports on the economy in recent weeks.
(4) Many issues remain still unsettled concerning the modification of its structure and composition in diseases as well as details of its biosynthesis and its pharmacology.
(5) The response was still impressive in the latter stages, when Wenger reacted to Barcelona's second goal by asking Fabregas to play closer to a re-shaped front-line of Nasri, Walcott and Bendtner, and Walcott's speed unsettled Maxwell.
(6) The board of Tata deposed Mistry for several reasons – including a clash of cultures – but it was further unsettled by his plan to offload all or part of the UK steel business.
(7) The Spaniard has accused José Mourinho of unsettling the 21-year-old England international by going public with an initial £20m offer, which was rejected.
(8) Although taurine displaces GABA agonist binding to synaptic membranes, its allosteric effects on the benzodiazepine recognition site of the GABAA receptor complex is unsettled.
(9) However, each of these hypotheses meets with objections, the modality for the stimulation of amylase release by cationic amino acids being eventually considered as an unsettled matter.
(10) Yakubu's speed unsettled Steaua further but it was Downing, in front of Sven-Goran Eriksson, who turned the tie.
(11) The horror boom in the 70s spoke to an unsettled era in which anxiety about family, children and social order could be traced to large-scale economic crisis.
(12) Barcelona’s miracle worker Lionel Messi leaves Arsenal praying for one | Barney Ronay Read more City continue to monitor Messi’s situation should he become unsettled.
(13) While Pochettino was undoubtedly unsettled by the departure of the club’s influential chief executive, Nicola Cortese, in January , he had been unconvinced that the owner, Katharina Liebherr, could match his own ambition with bids having been submitted for a number of key players.
(14) It's this unsettling montage of re-enactment, confessional and political exposé that grabbed the attention of doco-godfathers Werner Herzog and Errol Morris – both executive producers – as well as awestruck critics the world over.
(15) Perhaps the most impressive aspect to the USA’s Concacaf qualifying success was that they achieved it despite having a highly unsettled starting XI.
(16) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
(17) The role of the long head of the biceps in glenohumeral abduction and the accompanying external rotation is an unsettled issue.
(18) The role of radiotherapy in small cell carcinoma of the lung is unsettled; however, the radiosensitivity of this neoplasm is unquestioned.
(19) Thus, the origin of the osteoclasts should still be considered an unsettled question.
(20) She argues that the cash squeeze is being caused by the fragile legitimacy of new president Mohamed Morsi , with the associated turmoil unsettling investors and markets.