disconcerts

Verb

disconcert (third-person singular simple present disconcerts, present participle disconcerting, simple past and past participle disconcerted)

1. (transitive) To upset the composure of; to startle.
   • The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   disturb, unsettle, rattle, agitate, freak, sting, bother, bring down, discompose, unstring

2. (transitive) To bring into confusion.

   Synonyms:

   agitate, upset, rattle, addle, baffle, vex, lose, embroil, stick, stump

3. (transitive) To frustrate, discomfit.
   • The emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

   Synonyms:

   foil, thwart

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