Disconcert
[,dɪskən'sɜːt] or ['dɪskən'sɝt]
Definition
(v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
(v. t.) To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.
(n.) Want of concert; disagreement.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1].Frustrate, defeat, thwart, contravene, interrupt, undo.[2].Discompose, confuse, perplex, bewilder, embarrass, disturb, abash, put out.
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Definition
v.t. to deprive of harmony or agreement: to disturb: to frustrate: to defeat: to put out of countenance.—n. Discon′cert disunion; Disconcer′tion confusion; Disconcert′ment.
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Examples
- He sat down, a little disconcerted by my presence, I thought, and without looking at me, drew his heavy sunburnt hand across and across his upper lip. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Both rose, red and disconcerted. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of the old gentleman, unshorn and perfumed with tobacco, might well do. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When Dora was very childish, and I would have infinitely preferred to humour her, I tried to be grave--and disconcerted her, and myself too. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Her stockings always disconcerted him, the pale-yellow stockings and the heavy heavy black shoes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Monks was plainly disconcerted, and alarmed besides. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I beg your pardon, ma'am,' said Mary Anne, disconcerted now she came to think of it; 'but I don't know that I mean more than her brother himself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- If that did not happen, and if the belt was made taut suddenly, the armature burned out--which it did with disconcerting frequency. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At last he said: 'So startling an announcement, so confidently made, and by such lips, is really disconcerting in the last degree. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Riviere took this onslaught with a disconcerting humility. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The inquiry, though a simple one, was plainly disconcerting, and he sat down before replying. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was a disconcerting lift of the curtain, and the mortification of Candaules' wife glowed in her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But I suppose, my dear,' hinted the cherub, as he folded the letter after a disconcerting silence, 'that we must make the best of it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Perhaps that is the reason why Arnold Bennett's description of the siege of Paris in The Old Wives' Tale is so disconcerting to many people. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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