Definition of "unsettle" []

• To displace from a settled condition; disrupt. (verb-transitive)
• To make uneasy; disturb. (verb-transitive)
• To become unsettled. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Levi says his work is designed to 'unsettle' viewers by challenging preconceptions of certain materials and objects."
• "He finally conceded this remains an "unsettle" question in the courts."
• "I also remarked a singular timidity on his part lest somebody should "unsettle" somebody's faith, -- as if faith did not require exercise as much as any other living thing, and were not all the better for a shaking up now and then."