Discompose

Quick meaning: Discompose is a verb meaning (transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.

Meaning

(transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.

Example Sentences

You will not be discomposed by the Lord Chancellor, I dare say?

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.

If e'er with airy horns I planted heads, Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds, Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude,

That thought appeared to discompose her greatly, though Jasper made light of it by rapidly back-scratching with his hind legs and giving a short stern bark, just to assure her that strangers would be rushed off the property on sight.

Word Forms

• discomposes
• discomposing
• discomposed

Synonyms for discompose

Depending on context, synonyms include perturb, unsettle, agitate, bother, disconcert, enturbulate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include discomfit, disconcert, upset, untune, untranquilize, disturb.

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