discomfort
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter.
Pronunciation Noundiscomfort
Translations- French: inconfort
- German: Unbehagen
- Portuguese: desconforto
- Russian: дискомфо́рт
- Spanish: malestar
- French: inconfort
- Russian: дискомфо́рт
- Spanish: desasosiego
discomfort (discomforts, present participle discomforting; simple past and past participle discomforted)
- To cause annoyance or distress to.
- (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:
- His funeral shall not be in our camp,
Lest it discomfort us.
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