unsettle
verb (used with object)
to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb.
will unsettle
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future tenseof unsettle.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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That, she said, "will unsettle our financial and other commercial institutions, to the point that doing business in a state in which they face undefined, exponential liability might soon prove unpalatable."
From Reuters ● Jun. 13, 2023
"Any failure to do so will unsettle the markets," he warned the chancellor.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2022
There is Sara’s niece, a first grader whose tooth-related obsession will unsettle readers who remember Gillian Flynn’s “Sharp Objects.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2020
“It is possible that the upcoming elections will unsettle things again,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 26, 2019
In taking from them what you believe to be false, inevitably you will unsettle their ideas on moral questions although you might be in full agreement as to these moral questions.
From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers) Mitchell
