unsatisfy

present singular third person unsatisfies · participle present unsatisfying · participle past unsatisfied · past unsatisfied

1. raretransitiveTo fail to satisfy; dissatisfy.

   Norm was thinking: I'd sure like to unsatisfy that bastard.

   2008, R. L. Newman, Sinks Canyon Mystery, →ISBN, page 123

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   For the execution, by disputes, there arose some difficulties, the Earl of Dorset alleging that if the arrears should be paid upon Dorsetshire, there would not remain money to satisfy the growing entertainments, which would much unsatisfy the […]

   1897, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Bruce, William Douglas Hamilton, Calendar of State Papers: Of the Reign of Charles I, 1625-[1649]

   […] or imprisoned persons, supposed ghosts, for long periods or until almost the end of the story, with occasional references to them, unsatisfies the reader, unless he knows beforehand that all will be explained normally.

   1950, Lulu Rumsey Wiley, The sources and influence of the novels of Charles Brockden Brown