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third-person singular simple present disconcerts, present participle disconcerting, simple past and past participle disconcerted
(transitive) To upset the composure of. quotations examples
The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 4, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
(transitive) To bring into confusion. examples
(transitive) To frustrate, discomfit. examples
A state of disunion. examples