discompose

This did not seem to discompose him; on the contrary, he looked rather amused.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

My approach seemed to discompose them not a little.

From Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

And often, when her father was talking to her and she giving mechanical replies, suddenly her cheek would burn like fire, and the old man would wonder what he had said to discompose her.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

From her apartment she was attended by several of the principal gentlemen of the neighborhood, who had come to protect her from the approach of any thing that might discompose her.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Oh, come—we must be calm; it will never do to discompose ourselves.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

Without the injured Albiston, who had failed to emerge after the half-time break, they were crucially discomposed when Sulley took a corner in the sixtieth minute.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016

As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes’s seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston’s score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind.

From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011

He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.

From Time Magazine Archive

I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed to and fro.

From Time Magazine Archive

The young man Sorve, not at all discomposed, led me on and brought me into the Inner Hearth to the Lord of Estre.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

But the interlude, in itself discomposing, had composed my nerves for the while.

From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

When I faced her at the trench she reared, and whirled round, and pranced backwards in, considering the circumstances, a highly discomposing way.

From All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

Immense quantities of locusts were everywhere met with, making the ground yellow where they lay, and rising with a rustling noise, which was very discomposing to the horses at our approach.

From March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

A stranger might well overlook them, but, when turned suddenly in anger or surprise, a steady searching light commenced to glow in them which was discomposing, if not alarming.

From Nevermore by Rolf Bolderwood