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unnerving

vb. (present participle of unnerve English)

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unnerving

adj. inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery"; "a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston; "something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray wall" [syn: formidable, redoubtable]

Usage examples of "unnerving".

The realization that she was experiencing the symptoms of a major anxiety attack was more unnerving than the antagonistic source.

After she and Giles discovered the reason underlying her unnerving experience, she intended to find out.

They drove on a mile, the only sound the unnerving hum of the tires on the cold road.

The equipment hissed away with an unnerving sound like a child sucking too hard through a straw.