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

It may be he is right: it is not for me to gainsay him, or to further discompose his temper, when all the evidence is so plainly visible.

From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck

But Ruxton had no desire to discompose him.

From The Men Who Wrought by Ridgwell Cullum

What have ye seen to discompose ye thus?

From Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts by Jane Alice Sargant

No one goes with any exaggerated expectations of enjoyment; but as little does he anticipate anything to discompose or displease him.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

She saw how Romero avoided every brusque movement and saved his bulls for the last when he wanted them, not winded and discomposed but smoothly worn down.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021

After this discomposing harangue the assembly breaks up in some confusion.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

There is another kind of disturbance which shows itself also in the first year, and has a certain analogy to the discomposing effect of sound.

From Children's Ways by James Sully

There is nothing quite so discomposing as the scornful rejection of proffers of self-seeking philanthropy.

From The Blue Goose by Frank Lewis Nason

When I had extinguished my candle this one bright patch in the midst of the general gloom had certainly an eerie and discomposing aspect.

From The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle