From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter.

• (RP) IPA: /dɪsˈkʌmfət/
• (America) IPA: /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/

discomfort

1. Mental or bodily distress.
2. Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.

• 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)

1. To cause annoyance or distress to.
2. (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.