discomfit
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
discomfit /dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/
▶verb (discomfits, discomfiting, discomfited) make uneasy or embarrassed.
– derivatives
discomfiture noun.
discomfiture noun.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘defeat in battle’): from OFr. desconfit, past part. of desconfire, based on L. dis- (expressing reversal) + conficere (see confect).
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