- past tense form of discombobulate.
- past participle of discombobulate.
discombobulated
Example Sentences
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Bryan’s character is a big part of the movie’s appeal; he’s a scruffy, discombobulated everyman who figures out solutions on the fly, not a boringly cool and composed slaying machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
My relationship with self-care is already so discombobulated.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Moving sharply, Djokovic used his superior tennis IQ to carefully construct points in a way which Alcaraz could not compute - similar to how he discombobulated the Spaniard in last year's quarter-finals.
From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2026
Melissa Otto, head of research at S&P Global Visible Alpha, said if Google was forced to sell Chrome it would have “completely discombobulated their business model.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
It’s funny the way I remember my time in France: little vignettes, discombobulated, a narrative drifting along an ocean, a series of scenes that meant nothing until they meant something.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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