Meaning & use
Discomfit
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To make someone feel uneasy, embarrassed, or confused.
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The blunt question was designed to discomfit the witness on the stand.
His sudden silence seemed to discomfit everyone at the table.
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"Discomfit" originally meant "to defeat in battle" in Middle English; its modern, milder sense of causing unease developed later, partly by confusion with "discomfort."
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