discompose

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Colossus; but though they disturb and discompose, they luckily do no material harm.

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  1. transitive verb To disturb the composure or calm of; perturb.
  2. transitive verb To put into a state of disorder.

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  • We are ever trading digit discompose or digit freustration for another. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Oral cancer is specially dangerous because in its early stages it may not be detected by the patient, as it crapper frequently turn without producing discompose or symptoms they might pronto recognize, and because it has a high venture of producing second, direct tumors. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • I guess that will place you in a sense of mode, are you set up for the scenario from an expense perspective, maybe you can kind of discompose, maybe categorize your expenses by personnel or maybe other items and which part of this question, I mean, obviously, all focus is on your ability to protect the bottom-line. —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator (real estate blogs)
  • He persevered, and did not allow these little trials to discompose or discourage him By one o'clock on the first day of his service he had sold eighteen books, which far exceeded even his most sanguine expectations. —  Now or Never The Adventures of Bobby Bright
  • They glance on my imagination and ferment till they discompose, heat, and bring on a palpitation; during this state of agitation I see nothing properly, cannot write a single word, and must wait till all is over. —  Stories of Achievement, Volume IV (of 6) Authors and Journalists
 

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  1. = French dècomposer; as dis- privative + compose. Cf. Spanish descomponer = Portuguese descompor = Italian discomporre, scomporre, from Latin dis- privative + componere, compose. Cf. decompose.
 

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/dɪskəmˈpoʊz/
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