8 February 2017
discommode
[dis-kuh-mohd]
verb (used with object), discommoded, discommoding.
1. to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.
Origin of discommode
French
1715-1725; < French discommoder, equivalent to dis- dis-1+ -commoder, verbal derivative of commode convenient; see commode
Related forms
discommodious, adjective
discommodiously, adverb
discommodiousness, noun
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Examples from the Web for discommode
Historical Examples
An air of breathlessness about Rachel seemed to discommode her friends.
Erik Dorn
Ben Hecht
To ask for a guarantor for a reputable resident is simply to discommode two people instead of one.
A Library Primer
John Cotton Dana
“Yet not so far aside as to discommode any one,” responded Mason.
From Farm House to the White House
William M. Thayer
The boys shouted to their animals, who flew across the plain as though the snow did not discommode them in the least.
The Young Ranchers
Edward S. Ellis
For this end it was necessary to discommode myself of my cloak, and of the volume which I carried in the pocket of my cloak.
Edgar Huntley
Charles Brockden Brown
I objected, for I did not wish to discommode him in the least and told him a good bed could be fixed in the mess wagon.
Dangers of the Trail in 1865
Charles E Young
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Today’s quote
It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.
– Anthony Burgess
On this day
8 February 1238 – Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
8 February 1587 – Mary Queen of Scots is executed for her apparent role in the failed Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
8 February 1952 – Princess Elizabeth declares herself Queen of the British Commonwealth, taking the title, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
8 February 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II issues an Order-in-Council declaring that her family would be known as the House of Windsor and her descendants will take the name ‘Mountbatten-Windsor’.
8 February 1983 – At 3pm, Australia’s second largest city, Melbourne, is hit by a massive dust-storm, towering 320m high, reducing visibility to 100m and turning day into night. The dust-storm came during the most severe drought on record and was caused by loose top-soil in the Mallee and Wimmera districts of western Victoria being whipped up by fierce northerly winds. Other places in Victoria recorded dust as high as 1,000m. This photo was taken by a motorist heading west on the Princes Highway at Werribee.
Melbourne-dust-storm