discomfit
verb (used with object)
to confuse and deject; disconcert.
has discomfited
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present perfectof discomfit (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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That face-to-face confrontation is a reminder that the collection — radically democratic in its wide-open accessibility and its agglomeration of the high and low — has discomfited sticklers for regulation and orderliness from the outset.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
The failure to have more extensive proceeding has discomfited some observers, but others point to the tribunal's accomplishments.
From Fox News ● Nov. 16, 2018
The traffic has discomfited the Bonn government, but the East Germans have profited from the refugee business.
From Time Magazine Archive
