Unsettle vs Provoke - What's the difference?
unsettle | provoke |
To make upset or uncomfortable
:Don't unsettle the horses or they'll bolt.
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To bring into disorder or disarray
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
As verbs the difference between unsettle and provoke
is that unsettle is to make upset or uncomfortable while provoke is to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.unsettle
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Verb
(en-verb)citation, page= , passage=Athletic have been showing signs of fatigue domestically and they never quite seemed to reach the same pitch of intensity that had so unsettled Manchester United and Schalke 04 in earlier rounds. }}
Antonyms
*settleprovoke
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Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)