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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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
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
The islanders gave Leha and his a cold welcome, but this did not discompose him.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
His complexion may trouble the physiologists; but is not likely to discompose the poetical reader under the tuition of Christopher North.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
But Ruxton had no desire to discompose him.
From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum
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
Karkaroff, Harry saw, looked slightly discomposed to see them standing there.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
The cabin door opened discreetly and Powell, incarnation of decorous punctualities even amid existing tumultuously discomposing circumstances, entered.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
What was extraordinary was its discomposing effect upon her on this particular afternoon.
From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Edward Bellamy
The process of putting on paper the sentiments that seethed in my soul was really very discomposing.
From The Promised Land by Mary Antin
A stranger might well overlook them, but, when turned suddenly in anger or surprise, a steady searching light commenced to glow in them which was discomposing, if not alarming.
From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood
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