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third-person singular simple present discomposes, present participle discomposing, simple past and past participle discomposed
(transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate. quotations examples
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.
1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 6
You will not be discomposed by the Lord Chancellor, I dare say?
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853
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.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 127
(transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder. quotations examples
If e'er with airy horns I planted heads,Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds,Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude,Or discompos'd the head-dress of a prude...
1712-17, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (London: Chiswick Press. 1925), canto IV