discomfit
verb (used with object)
to confuse and deject; disconcert.
had discomfited
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past perfectof discomfit.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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It then seemed to make rushes at one particular man, and when it had discomfited him, it whisked itself away to some far-off spot, only to return, presently, in greater force than before.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
"You speak of the affair, Captain Wharton, as if your boasted Mr. Dunwoodie, for major he is none, had discomfited the bodyguards of your king."
From The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper
After what had happened, Willis and I felt much interest the following week in seeing the show that had discomfited us.
From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens
Pepper, too, had discomfited another; and yet another, trying to use it, had driven a fork nearly through his cheek, all talking and spluttering the while.
From John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford
Alvar Fañez and his people, when they had discomfited the Moors, spoiled the field, and the spoil thereof was so great that they could not carry it away.
From Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) by Various
