discomfit
suomi-englanti sanakirjadiscomfit englannista suomeksi
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Verbi
discomfit englanniksi
To embarrass (someone) greatly; to confuse; to perplex; to disconcert.
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(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
(RQ:Charlotte Bronte Villette)
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)
(RQ:Churchill Far Country)
To defeat the plans or hopes of; to frustrate; disconcert.
{{quote-book|en|year=1886|author=Andrew Lang|chapter=10|title=The Mark Of Cain
(quote-book)|title=The Second Volume of the Chronicles:(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Denham|Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke|year=1585|year_published=January 1587|page=46|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ASFEAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA3-PA46|column=1|oclc=810972465|passage=(w) therefore leauing this Ile, paſſed into Pomonia the chiefeſt of all the Orkenies, where diſcomfiting ſuch as appeared abroad to make reſiſtance, he beſieged the king of thoſe Iles named Ganus, within a caſtell where he was withdrawen, ...
(RQ:King James Version)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)