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/dˌɪskənsˈərt/ Listen

verb

Disconcert v. t. (past & past part. disconcerted; pres. part. disconcerting)

To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. "The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do."

Synonyms: To discompose; derange; ruffle; confuse; disturb; defeat; frustrate.

noun

Disconcert n. Want of concert; disagreement.

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Etymology of 'Disconcert'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disconcert" Quotes from Famous Books

... members of which was a dashing young man of about twenty-two. He and his sister and mother were frequent visitors to this little household of three. But the young Mexican was the most frequent, and the husband's being home or not did not disconcert him. Men of affairs must need spend morning hours, and sometimes afternoon hours, too, inside of offices, but wealthy and aristocratic young Mexicans ride horses all day, decked out with silver, ...

— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson

... further. There is danger in your path." The suddenness and unexpectedness of this warning, the tone of alarm with which it was given, and, above all, the persuasion that it was my wife who spoke, were enough to disconcert and make me pause. I turned and listened to assure myself that I was not mistaken. The deepest silence succeeded. At length, I spoke in my turn. Who calls? is it you, Catharine? I stopped and presently received an answer. ...

— Wieland; or The Transformation - An American Tale • Charles Brockden Brown

... apparently disconcert the other, but he looked carefully around as if searching for something ...

— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... dropped down the face of the building as easily as he would have dropped from limb to limb of a jungle tree. The sixteen stories under him did not disconcert him at all. Bentley had a suspicion about this particular ape, but he wouldn't know for a time yet whether his suspicion had a basis in fact. He couldn't think of a man—especially an old man like Harold Hervey—making that hair-raising descent. ...

— The Mind Master • Arthur J. Burks

... annoyed by the existence of another, steel is your only arbiter, and charitable allowances for the dead make the one rational peroration. So we crossed blades; and, pursuing my usual tactics, I began upon a flow of words, which course, as I have learned by old experience, is apt to disconcert an adversary far more than any trick ...

— Gallantry - Dizain des Fetes Galantes • James Branch Cabell

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