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unrest

Pronunciation:  un'rest

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a feeling of restless agitation
  2. [n]  a state of agitation or turbulent change or development; "the political ferment produced a new leadership"; "social unrest"
 
 Synonyms: agitation, ferment, fermentation
 
 See Also: agitation, Sturm und Drang, turbulence, upheaval

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Un*rest"\, n.
Want of rest or repose; unquietness; sleeplessness;
uneasiness; disquietude.

      Is this, quoth she, the cause of your unrest!
                                               --Chaucer.

      Can calm despair and wild unrest Be tenants of a single
      breast?                                  --Tennyson.
 



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