discomfit

verb · adjectiveB2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

discomfits

V_ing/Gerund

discomfiting

V_ed/pp

discomfittingdiscomfited

1.
(transitive)To embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
Don't worry. Your joke did not really discomfit me.
Đồng nghĩa: abash, disconcert, abase, abash, bring low, confuse, confound, debase, degrade, demean, depress, disconcert, discomfit, dishonour, embarrass, humble, humiliate, lower, mortify, put to shame, shame
2.
(rare, transitive)To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate; disconcert.
Đồng nghĩa: foil, thwart
3.
(archaic, transitive)To defeat completely; to rout.
Đồng nghĩa: overthrow, vanquish

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Đồng nghĩa

abash disconcert abasebring lowconfuse confound debase degrade demean depressdishonourembarrass humble humiliate lower mortifyput to shameshame foil thwart

Cùng gốc / liên quan

undiscomfited discomfiture discomfort

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From Middle English discomfiten, from Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire (to undo, to destroy), from des- (completely), from Latin dis- + Old French confire (to make), from Latin cōnficiō (to finish up, to destroy), from com- (with, together) + faciō (to do, to make).