Cause to lose one's composure.
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Examples for "upset "
Examples for "upset "
1 In this case the problem without a solution upset the student, too.
2 A great deal, however, could happen to upset that plan before 2021.
3 Canada's government won't want to upset dairy farmers ahead of an election.
4 Nearly four years later, Mr Levi remains extremely upset at his treatment.
5 OPINION:IN A STUNNING upset , Barack Obama last week won the Iraq primary.
1 Even the old Mexican shooting-suit seemed in no way to disconcert him.
2 This movement tended still further to disconcert the ex-Emperor and his followers.
3 My question seemed to disconcert her, perhaps by reason of its directness.
4 No, you can't disconcert a woman in love-itmakes her quite vain-glorious.
5 The inconsistencies of man must disconcert even the Thinker up in the skies.
1 This outburst of passion did not in the smallest degree discompose Daumon.
2 Annealed as we are, I think it will discompose the most callous.
3 Sol's bitter chiding had been the first thing to discompose her fortitude.
4 No flutters!-AmI not your mother?-Donot discompose me by discomposing yourself!
5 This answer seemed to discompose as well as to surprise him.
1 What remained now but to issue forth and discomfit the infidel host.
2 Through his energy he is able to oppose and discomfit us.
3 Astringent and wise, Black is not afraid to discomfit her readers.
4 This news seemed to discomfit the emir more than anything that had been said.
5 President Cleveland now availed himself of a common Senate practice to discomfit Senator Hill.
1 No sight could touch or daunt me, no sound my soul untune ;
2 They untune and dissipate the brave aspirant.
3 He did not, as has been said of Horace, wilfully untune his harp when he commenced satirist.
4 Such passions as anger, hatred, jealousy, sorrow, worry, grudge, and fear always untune one's mood and break the harmony of one's mind.
5 And Music Shall Untune the Sky was commissioned by the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra for the 1988 Festival Proms series.
6 As she untunes the lute by "pinching" the strings over-excitedly with her right, her other hand retunes it by turning the pegs.
7 'Did you ever see such daubs!' she said, making a wry face as at something sour enough to untune her nerves.
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