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Unsettle

To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.

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Discomfit 76% connected

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

Open English WordNet identifies the related term as a broader lexical category for at least one sense.

Discompose 76% connected

To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Disconcert 76% connected

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Untune 76% connected

To make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action; to put out of tune.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Upset 76% connected

To set up; to put upright.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 1

Unman 76% connected

To deprive of the distinctive qualities of a human being, as reason, or the like.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Enervate 92% connected

To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Faze 92% connected

See Feeze.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Unnerve 92% connected

To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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