Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make uneasy or perplexed; disconcert. synonym: embarrass.
- transitive verb Archaic To defeat in battle; vanquish.
- noun Archaic Discomfiture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rout; defeat; discomfiture.
- To foil or thwart in battle; overcome completely in fighting; defeat; rout.
- To disconcert; foil; frustrate the plans of; throw into perplexity and dejection.
- Synonyms Overpower, Rout, etc. See
defeat .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Discomfited; overthrown.
- noun Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.
- transitive verb To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
- transitive verb To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk� to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
defeat completely; torout . - verb To
defeat the plans or hopes of; tofrustrate . - verb proscribed To
embarrass greatly; toconfuse ; toperplex ; todisconcert .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to lose one's composure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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*By the way, I hereby forsake the verb "discomfit".
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Frank Lampard - 7His penalty was dispatched with gusto, and he would have enjoyed the space that opened up after the interval as Chelsea pushed higher to discomfit the league leaders, even if sights of goal from open play were rare.
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In Fugitive Days, he fixes on her in ways that had to discomfit the Weatherwoman he eventually settled for.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
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And if I draw others into my circle of anxiety, does it serve to comfort all of us – by underlining how common the experience – or does it serve to discomfit all of us – by making the experience common, by forcing others to live it, vicariously?
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Erf wanted to discomfit a sniper up in the rafters by tossing a table at him, or shaking the rafter, or whatnot but by the rules had to settle for attacking the rafter to cut it through.
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Although ultimately he angrily left the press conference amid journalists' heckles, nothing appears set to discomfit Blatter.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter to football world: 'Crisis? What is a crisis?' 2011
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How did we become such delicate creatures that we cannot dare to read a word that might discomfit us?
Ravitch: The chutzpah of rewriting Mark Twain (and how it relates to "The Wire") Valerie Strauss 2011
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Not only because it reinforces that the safety of our group space does not mean safety from discomfort, but also because it reinforces that the safety of our group is also intended for me, and others, to speak our truths, even when those truths may discomfit others.
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After 1900 he increasingly withdrew from active participation in politics, with his most prominent involvement being occasional embarrassing public statements to discomfit his own ministers.
Matthew Yglesias » The Real German Resistance to Hitler: The Social Democrats 2009
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In Fugitive Days, he fixes on her in ways that had to discomfit the Weatherwoman he eventually settled for.
Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011
bilby commented on the word discomfit
"A budding British cook died last week after eating his own spicy tomato sauce, the London Times reports. Andrew Lee, 33, challenged his girlfriend’s brother to a contest, arriving with a jar of the sauce, made with chilies his father had grown. After eating it, he felt itchy and discomfited, and fell asleep while his girlfriend scratched his back. The next morning he was dead."
- 'UK Cook Eats Own Hot Sauce, Dies', newser.com, 29 Sep 2008.
September 30, 2008
reesetee commented on the word discomfit
Wow. That's discomfited, all right.
September 30, 2008
yarb commented on the word discomfit
Perhaps she scratched too hard.
September 30, 2008