discomfit
Signification (Anglais)
- (transitive) To embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
- (rare, transitive) To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate; disconcert.
- (archaic, transitive) To defeat completely; to rout.
Synonymes
render powerless
Traductions
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/
Étymologie (Anglais)
From Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire (“to undo, to destroy”), from des- (“completely”), from Latin dis- + confire (“to make”), from Latin conficio (“to finish up, to destroy”), from com- (“with, together”) + facio (“to do, to make”). Later sense of “to embarrass, to disconcert” due to confusion with unrelated discomfort.
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