discompose
Americanverb (used with object)
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to upset the order of; disarrange; disorder; unsettle.
The breeze discomposed the bouquet.
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to disturb the composure of; agitate; perturb.
The bad news discomposed us.
- Synonyms:
- disconcert, discomfit
verb
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to disturb the composure of; disconcert
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rare to disarrange
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Origin of discompose
Example Sentences
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This did not seem to discompose him; on the contrary, he looked rather amused.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
What have ye seen to discompose ye thus?
From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant
No one goes with any exaggerated expectations of enjoyment; but as little does he anticipate anything to discompose or displease him.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
It may be he is right: it is not for me to gainsay him, or to further discompose his temper, when all the evidence is so plainly visible.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
Disease is = dis-ease, discompose, as used by Phineas Fletcher: cf. vol. iii. p.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Without the injured Albiston, who had failed to emerge after the half-time break, they were crucially discomposed when Sulley took a corner in the sixtieth minute.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016
As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes’s seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston’s score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011
I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed to and fro.
From Time Magazine Archive
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young man Sorve, not at all discomposed, led me on and brought me into the Inner Hearth to the Lord of Estre.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
But all this, though discomposing, was no more than I had begun to expect.
From Wandering Heath by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Not a hurried or discomposing one, for the grey horses, knowing that there was plenty of time before them, never changed their pace from a stately walk the whole way.
From Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes by Robert Barnes
This last view is not popular, and when brought home to the invader has proved at times extremely discomposing.
From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell
"It probes the secrets of capitalism and labor, of politics and journalism with a surety and a conviction almost discomposing."
From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin
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