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
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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
Of course the failure did not discompose me, nor shake my belief.
From There is no Death by Florence Marryatt
It is, and looks, German, and is of an extravagant nature that would utterly discompose an English herald.
From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper
I do not wish to discompose you, Madam," said Mr. Talton, coolly; "pray be seated.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Sophia Reeve
News arrived from Dunore this spring, which Linda fancied would sorely discompose Andy.
From Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement by Elizabeth Hely Walshe
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
In watching his face, I made quite a firework of the Aged’s sausage, and greatly discomposed both my own attention and Wemmick’s; for which I apologised.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
This we fortunately accomplished without seriously discomposing our patient, and the surgeon then administered a soothing draught, the effect of which was to put the sufferer to sleep in a few minutes.
From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Edward S. Hodgson
In this frame of mind I retired to rest—the idea of anything supernatural never entering my mind, and no shade of fear discomposing my thoughts.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various
"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
He had not learned before that ladies' eyes are sometimes very discomposing.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
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