(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miklos Haraszti, whom I encountered in Budapest, had the looks of a small Spanish grandee in some Velázquez painting; dark, unnervingly handsome, serene.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
(3) Thereafter they both got so angry with one another they started adopting each other's pet phrases – "I won't be lectured to by..." – and there was the unnerving possibility they might just morph into a single, spluttering entity.
(4) In this fragile neighbourhood, surprises are always unnerving.
(5) You are lying down with your head in a noisy and tightfitting fMRI brain scanner, which is unnerving in itself.
(6) It's very unnerving to be a prisoner," he tells an English-speaking interviewer in one.
(7) For veterans of the women's movement there may be something unnerving about hearing the familiar slogans from Tory mouths – a sense that, as a female columnist lamented recently of Mensch, these late converts are "the wrong kind" of feminists.
(8) Yuval Shpungin fouled Hazard midway inside the Maccabi half and, with Rajkovic unnerved by the crowd wrestling their way towards the spot, Willian’s inswinging free-kick skipped into the corner of the net.
(9) China has unnerved investors because of an economic slowdown that Beijing seems incapable of steering properly.
(10) The US is to deploy F-22 fighter jets to Europe as part of efforts to support eastern European members of the Nato alliance unnerved by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine .
(11) If the notion sounds odd, the reality is only slightly less unnerving than having a black-eyed dog call at your door.
(12) China syndrome: how the slowdown could spread to the Brics and beyond Read more Stock markets dived last week as the prospect of a rate rise combined with figures showing the Chinese economy growing at a slower pace than previously forecast unnerved investors.
(13) She had tried before but only got to page two, and had found it so unnerving that she had been unable to leave the house for three days.
(14) It wasn’t for fear he was going to do something awful to the child but I did think his presence was unnerving for some children.
(15) We can edit nature Andrea Crisanti Still, talk of “editing nature” will unnerve those who are naturally suspicious of such radical moves, and for whom the term “genetic modification” is an automatic red flag.
(16) The idea that people are watching me now is a bit unnerving, but I suppose it comes with the territory.
(17) There is this haunting look about him as he comes to terms with the fact he does not have long to live, yet there is this unnerving defiance there as well.” The composer sat for four difficult days in 1881, dying before the planned final sitting.
(18) Martin London Henllan, Denbighshire • Markets are “unnerved”, “market confidence is fast deteriorating”, “market expectations [or should that read speculations?]
(19) The feeling of being an imposter is definitely unnerving.
(20) In a twist that will further unnerve senior police officers, it emerged that Kennedy has asked the public relations agent Max Clifford to sell his story.
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.