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dis·com·fit (dis kum′fit)
transitive verb
- Archaic to defeat; overthrow
- to frustrate the plans or expectations of
- to make uneasy; disconcert
Etymology: ME discomfiten < OFr desconfit, pp. of desconfire < VL *disconficere < L dis- + conficere: see confect
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