discompose

Etymology

dis- + compose.

verb

  1. (transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.
    I am glad I have done being in love with him. I should not like a man who is so soon discomposed by a hot morning. 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 6
  2. (transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.
    If e'er with airy horns I planted heads, Or rumpled petticoats, or tumbled beds, Or caus'd suspicion when no soul was rude, 1712-17, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (London: Chiswick Press. 1925), canto IV

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