discomfit
verb🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/
🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/
[often passive] (literary)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they discomfit | 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/ 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪt/ |
| he / she / it discomfits | 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪts/ 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪts/ |
| past simple discomfited | 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪd/ 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪd/ |
| past participle discomfited | 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪd/ 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form discomfiting | 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/dɪsˈkʌmfɪtɪŋ/ |
to make somebody feel confused or embarrassed 使困惑；使窘迫；使尴尬 - be discomfited (by something)
He was not noticeably discomfited by the request. 这项请求并没有使他感到不适。
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘defeat in battle’): from Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire, based on Latin dis- (expressing reversal) + conficere ‘put together’, from con- ‘together’ + facere ‘make’.- be discomfited (by something)