disconcert
verb (used with object)
to disturb the self-possession of; perturb; ruffle.
will disconcert
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future tenseof disconcert.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“Not a smile. It’s not the smile that will disconcert me. Not at all. Or his eyes that will make me afraid. Because I’m not afraid of him.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2017
The news of Soffer's discovery, which is too recent to have found its way into Angier's or Hales' book, will disconcert many feminists as well as sociobiologists.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only don't look at me too closely, or you will disconcert me.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
A man has a wound in his great toe, and a violent and perilous fever at the same time; and he refuses to take the medicines for the fever because it will disconcert the toe!
From Peter Plymley's Letters, and selected essays by Sydney Smith
The threat of having them forced on her every time she shows herself will disconcert her.
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
