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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
discombobulate .
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Examples
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It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism; instead they turn on their own side (America, Israel) and create a climate of anti-war defeatism and appeasement.
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"It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism".
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism; instead they turn on their own side (America, Israel) and create a climate of anti-war defeatism and appeasement.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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It also demoralises (in every sense), demotivates and discombobulates non-Muslim Brits so that they are quite unable to grasp that they are under attack from religious fanaticism; instead they turn on their own side (America, Israel) and create a climate of anti-war defeatism and appeasement.
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Coming to something through the secondary senses first discombobulates, then introduces a feeling of novelty to the ordinary.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Coming to something through the secondary senses first discombobulates, then introduces a feeling of novelty to the ordinary.
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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Most sixteen years old, a few older, even eighteen, the dopier ones, the discombobulates, left back at some point in the long alpine march to knowledge.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Most sixteen years old, a few older, even eighteen, the dopier ones, the discombobulates, left back at some point in the long alpine march to knowledge.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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The snow just takes over and there's not a damn thing you can do about it until one of your limbs discombobulates.
How it ended Ms Robinson 2008
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Most sixteen years old, a few older, even eighteen, the dopier ones, the discombobulates, left back at some point in the long alpine march to knowledge.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
bokie commented on the word discombobulates
If the human ear is conditioned to find music with tonal moorings satisfying, if we are “embedded in a tonal universe,�? as Leonard Bernstein once put it, then 12-tone music discombobulates those aural expectations and shakes up the universe.
February 11, 2009