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# disquiet

«disquiet» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make them worried or uneasy** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (disquiets, disquieted, disquieting); noun (a disquiet)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To disquiet someone is to make them worried or uneasy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disquiet/#m1)

2) (old use) To disquiet oneself is to fret or worry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disquiet/#m2)

3) A disquiet is a feeling of worry or restless unease. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disquiet/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a worry that spoils a calm mood; the word names a feeling, not a fact or a number

### examples

- Her strange silence began to disquiet us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disquiet/#x1)
- Do not disquiet yourself; all is well. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disquiet/#x2)
- The news was a source of disquiet to the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disquiet/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disquiet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disquiet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.