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
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 Drake, Samuel Adams
She had won her point; therefore she was in excellent spirits with all the world, and not even the spilling of some wine on her new silk served to discompose her.
From The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century by Heyer, Georgette
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 Harper, Charles G.
What have ye seen to discompose ye thus?
From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Sargant, Jane Alice
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
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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 Barnes, Robert
My word!" exclaimed Mr. Brimberly, retreating rather precipitately, "this is very discomposing, this is!
From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Farnol, Jeffery
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 Bolderwood, Rolf
But as his headache began to yield to cold water, discomposing doubts rose upon his clearing mental horizon.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George
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