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discomfit

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9 lettersPronunciation /dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/Part of speech verbSorted cdfiimostStarts with DEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cause to lose one's composure

Word origin

From Middle English discomfiten, from Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire (“to undo, to destroy”), from des- (“completely”), from Latin dis- + Old French confire (“to make”), from Latin cōnficiō (“to finish up, to destroy”), from com- (“with, together”) + faciō (“to do, to make”).

Used in a sentence

  • Don't worry. Your joke did not really discomfit me.
  • She is a pretty, silly girl: but are you apprehensive that her titter will discomfit the old lady?
  • After discomfiting her tormentors or wounding and scattering them, she would return to my side. …

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