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[ UK /dɪskˈɒmpə‍ʊz/ ]
VERB
  1. cause to lose one's composure

How To Use discompose In A Sentence

  • He was "umbrageous," ready to be discomposed by the action of others, but, if not vexed or startled, he was elaborately courteous. Henrik Ibsen
  • Always there is the need to retain her poise and never appear to be put out or discomposed.
  • For the second time that day I saw him discomposed.
  • The tale of the supernatural is traditionally an art of slowly built crescendo: we know that eventual horrors begin with small intimations? that witnesses will at first be only mildly discomposed. The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
  • Penelope supposed that she shouldn't have poured the tea on her like a child and instead said something cool and witty to discompose Evelyn.
  • Even in his discomposed state of mind, Derick was able to compare what the valley people were doing compared to what the people on the mountain had been doing.
  • I suddenly felt myself somewhat discomposed; my heart beat rapidly and I had a choking feeling in my throat.
  • I had been discomposed enough before; but I was so much the more discomposed by this unexpected behavior, that I was on the point of slinking off, to think how I had best proceed.
  • The whites, of course greatly discomposed, had besides a curious look of being painfully shocked by such an outrageous row.
  • He is too shrewd to be discomposed by such conversation.
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