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discomfited

/dis-kuhm-fit/US // dɪsˈkʌm fɪt //UK // (dɪsˈkʌmfɪt) //

沮丧的,沮丧,沮丧的人,沮丧沮丧

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to confuse and deject; disconcert: to be discomfited by a question.
    • : to frustrate the plans of; thwart; foil.
    • : Archaic. to defeat utterly; rout: The army was discomfited in every battle.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Archaic. rout; defeat.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdefeat, frustrate; confuse
Forms: discomfiting
Antonyms

Examples

  • But it cannot be said that anything much happened to discomfit the publishing houses of little faith.

  • It contained a small table and a stove, the latter of diminutive size, but smoky enough to discomfit a host.

  • Hereupon the proper thing is for something very harsh to break in, and discomfit all the wandering vision of earthly happiness.

  • They acknowledged that on this occasion it was less difficult to kill than to discomfit the soldiers of Chosroes.

  • The patriarch and the bishops did not seek to discomfit me by learned arguments or flimsy excuses.