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Verb: discomfit  dis'kúm-fit
  1. Cause to lose one's composure
    "When you discomfit somebody, you embarrass or bewilder him or, sometimes, you frustrate his plans";
    - upset, discompose, untune, disconcert

Sounds like: dire, dyert, discomfor

Derived forms: discomfiting, discomfited, discomfits

Type of: arouse, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise

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