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Today's Word "discomfit"

To make uneasy or perplexed on

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discomfit \dis-KUHM-fit; dis-kuhm-FIT\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To make uneasy or perplexed, or to put into a state of embarrassment; to disconcert; to upset. 2 : To thwart; to frustrate the plans of. 3 : (Archaic). To defeat in battle.

"Ahead, the children raced gaily in between bushes and trees, ignoring the maids' discomfit; assuming she was having as much fun..." -- Tracey Lee Hoy, 'Rhuddlan'

 

Discomfit comes from Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire, from Latin dis- + conficere, "to make ready, to prepare, to bring about," from com- + facere, "to make."


 

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