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Verb: disconcert  `dis-kun'surt
  1. Cause to feel embarrassment
    "The constant attention of the young man disconcerted her"
    - confuse, flurry, put off
     
  2. Cause to lose one's composure
    - upset, discompose, untune, discomfit

Derived forms: disconcerted, disconcerts, disconcerting

See also: disconcertment

Type of: abash, arouse, elicit, embarrass, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise

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