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scomfit

scomfit verb: to defeat, vanquish.

Verb

scomfit (third-person singular simple present scomfits, present participle scomfiting, simple past and past participle scomfit or scomfited)

  1. (obsolete) To defeat, vanquish.
    • For now here was one knyȝt scomfyte x knyghtes1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV

Noun

scomfit (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) discomfiture

Forms of scomfit

third-person singular presentscomfits
present participlescomfiting
past participlescomfit
pastscomfit
past participlescomfited
pastscomfited
alternative formscomfyte

Origin of scomfit

Clipping of discomfit.

Questions about scomfit

What does scomfit mean?
Scomfit means to defeat, vanquish.
What part of speech is scomfit?
Scomfit can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of scomfit?
The past tense of scomfit is scomfit.

Words near scomfit in the dictionary

  1. scombropids
  2. scomfish
  3. scomfished
  4. scomfishes
  5. scomfishing
  6. scomfit
  7. scomfiting
  8. scomfits
  9. scomm
  10. scomms
  11. ScoMo

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