discompose

Verb

discompose (third-person singular simple present discomposes, present participle discomposing, simple past and past participle discomposed)

1. (transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.
   • I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning.1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 6
   • You will not be discomposed by the Lord Chancellor, I dare say?1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   perturb, unsettle, agitate, freak, sting, bother, bring down, unstring, disconcert, enturbulate

2. (transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.
   • If e'er with airy horns I planted heads,
     Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds,
     Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude,1712-17, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (London: Chiswick Press. 1925), canto IV

   Synonyms:

   betumble, derange, displace, disrange, ruffle up, unsettle