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单词 unease
释义 un·ease
\|ən+\ noun
Etymology: Middle English unese, from un- (I) + ese ease
1. : mental or spiritual discomfort:
 a. : vague dissatisfactionmisgiving
  < my unease over the lack of stylistic assurance — R.D.Darrell >
 b. : anxiety and foreboding : disquiet
  < worry and unease harried her for the next weeks — Adria Langley >
 c. : emotional strain : tension
  < a sense of menace, of unease runs through their conversation — T.H.White b. 1915 >
 d. : lack of ease (as in social relations) : embarrassment
  < unease in the presence of … the great man — H.S.Canby >
2. obsolete : physical discomfort
 < such unease as in a coach … in passing over a furrow — Thomas Hobbes >
3. : awkwardness, uncomfortableness
 < the unease of their garments — William Faulkner >
 < the unease of this divorce of tradition from environment — Times Literary Supplement >
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