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Verb: discomfit  dis'kúm-fit
  1. Cause to lose one's composure
    "Persons frequently employ falsehoods to a sick man who cannot recover, lest it should discomfit his mind";
    - upset, discompose, untune [rare], disconcert

Sounds like: dire, dyert, discomfor

Derived forms: discomfited, discomfiting, discomfits

Type of: arouse, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, kindle, provoke, raise