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Meanings of discomfit in English

Portuguese
confundir
Catalan
confondre
Spanish
confundir

Cause to lose one's composure.

        confundir
        Usage of discomfit in English
        1
        What remained now but to issue forth and discomfit the infidel host.
        Ten Great Events in History
        2
        Through his energy he is able to oppose and discomfit us.
        The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
        3
        Astringent and wise, Black is not afraid to discomfit her readers.
        The Guardian
        4
        This news seemed to discomfit the emir more than anything that had been said.
        The Wyrmling Horde
        5
        President Cleveland now availed himself of a common Senate practice to discomfit Senator Hill.
        The Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics
        6
        She imagined that this declaration would silence and discomfit Wilkie, but she was mistaken.
        Baron Trigault's Vengeance
        7
        It would also discomfit financial markets around the world.
        Reuters
        8
        This reply seemed to discomfit them for a moment.
        The Bible in Spain / Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonm...
        9
        A powerful enemy has invaded my dominions, and has impiously presumed to discomfit my troops.
        The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
        10
        He had not known that a wisp of a girl could so discomfit a man.
        Dennison Grant: A Novel of To-day
        11
        Whatever could be done on tax and spending to discomfit the Tories, should be done.
        The Guardian
        12
        Surely she must discomfit him-routhim utterly-bythis means!
        The Keeper of the Door
        13
        Art takes us to the places that discomfit us as well as putting us together again.
        The Guardian
        14
        Such aspirational language and images may discomfit westerners, saddled with centuries of anxiety about skin colour.
        The Guardian
        15
        It is correct that this should discomfit us.
        Ebony
        16
        Although ultimately he angrily left the press conference amid journalists' heckles, nothing appears set to discomfit Blatter.
        The Guardian
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