discomposing
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Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021
This we fortunately accomplished without seriously discomposing our patient, and the surgeon then administered a soothing draught, the effect of which was to put the sufferer to sleep in a few minutes.
From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Hodgson, Edward S.
It was unusual for her and it was discomposing.
From The Vision of Elijah Berl by Nason, Frank Lewis
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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
So we stood facing one another—Hero and Leander, save that Leander found the effects of his bath more discomposing than the poets give any hint of.
From Dead Man's Rock by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
