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
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
"I would never make demands upon him that he should love me always," the girl proceeded, with a gentle solemnity that this kind of flippant witticism could not discompose.
From A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel by Ada Cambridge
Oh," says Poole with a great laugh, "don't let that discompose you.
From A Day with Samuel Taylor Coleridge by May Clarissa Gillington Byron
The presence of Frederick did not discompose him.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Gustave Flaubert
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
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
It was a little discomposing on account of there being so little time to get your breath in.
From The Very Small Person by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott
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
What was extraordinary was its discomposing effect upon her on this particular afternoon.
From A Love Story Reversed 1898 by Edward Bellamy
Immense quantities of locusts were everywhere met with, making the ground yellow where they lay, and rising with a rustling noise, which was very discomposing to the horses at our approach.
From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
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