discommode

American  

[dis-kuh-mohd] / ˌdɪs kəˈmoʊd /

verb (used with object)

discommoded, discommoding

1. to cause inconvenience to; disturb, trouble, or bother.

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discommode British  

/ ˌdɪskəˈməʊd /

verb

1. (tr) to cause inconvenience or annoyance to; disturb

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Other Word Forms

• discommodious adjective
• discommodiously adverb
• discommodiousness noun

Etymology

Origin of discommode

First recorded in 1650–60; from French discommoder, equivalent to dis- dis- ¹ + -commoder, verbal derivative of commode “convenient”; commode

Example Sentences

"Our theory," explains Rich, "is that 95% of the people are honest, and we're not going to discommode 95 people to root out the other five."

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Dangers of the Trail in 1865 A Narrative of Actual Events by Patterson, H. DeF.

"I'm sure, Saunders, that it won't discommode me in the least," said his lordship genially.

From The Man from Brodney's by McCutcheon, George Barr

The war that this assumption wages in my breast against the fact that the man will perhaps be sentenced is too violent a war not to discommode me.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

On every clearing these birds gravely promenaded by half-dozens together, and his cautious gliding across such exposed places did not in the least discommode the dusky company.

From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse