(v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
(v. t.) To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.
(n.) Want of concert; disagreement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(2) People wander this disconcerting garden a long time, uneasy and reflective.
(3) More disconcerting for his club, country and the game itself with a World Cup on the horizon were the succession of injury problems that prompted allegations of burn-out in the four-time Ballon d'Or winner.
(4) Low degrees of role interference is likewise disconcerting to persons but in the absence of an external target for aggression may lead to self deprecation and ultimately suicide.
(5) A further disconcerting feature was the resemblance of the distal right ventricular chamber to the rudimentary chamber of a univentricular heart of left ventricular type.
(6) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
(7) There is something slightly disconcerting about seeing Terry Hall laugh - at least the first time it happens.
(8) Despite their disconcerting appearance on angiography, spontaneous dissections of the internal carotid arteries are often associated with a good prognosis.
(9) Romney said the fallout from the G4S security fiasco and a threatened strike by immigration officials were "disconcerting" and questioned whether British people would get behind the Games.
(10) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
(11) The authors suggest that dichotomous variables deserve greatest clinical reliance; that time in training, alone, does not improve clinical performance; and that there is a disconcertingly large amount of inter- and intraobserver disagreement in this fundamental clinical task.
(12) City fan Matthew Cobb may be disconcerted, and paradoxically strangely comforted, with the news that his team are still in the dressing room.
(13) Prior arterial surgery was not shown to make AK amputation more likely, but it was disconcerting to note that limb salvage was not achieved in many individuals despite patent proximal inflow revascularization procedures.
(14) The opacity of these “other factors” aside, Facebook’s sometimes disconcerting suggestions – perhaps more accurately titled “people you most definitely know, but have no intention of adding” – have been remarked upon since it introduced the feature in 2008 .
(15) It is only the expression, often disconcerting, of a method of cerebral suffering and the clinician should be aware of its various presentations.
(16) Romney told NBC News: "There are a few things that were disconcerting.
(17) But it is disconcerting when you encounter it in real life.
(18) While these changes may be potentially disconcerting, the observations of this study show that they are not related to changes in heart rate or other clinical criteria associated with myocardial ischemia.
(19) My son was disconcerted when we moved back to the UK, and found that the "library" in his new primary school ("excellent", according to Ofsted) was a small bookcase halfway down a corridor.
(20) Locals love it and foreigners often find it disconcerting.
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.