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discommode

 
Dictionary: dis·com·mode   (dĭs'kə-mōd') pronunciation
tr.v., -mod·ed, -mod·ing, -modes.
To put to inconvenience; trouble.

[DIS- + commode, to suit (from Latin commodāre , from commodus, convenient; see commodious).]


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(dis-kuh-MOD)

verb tr.
To put to inconvenience.

Etymology
From French discommoder, from dis- + commode (convenient). Ultimately from Indo-European root med- (to take appropriate measures) that is also the source of medicine, modern, modify, modest, and modulate

Usage
"Much art today has abandoned the ambition to please the viewer aesthetically. Instead, it seeks to shock, discommode, repulse, proselytize, or startle." — Roger Kimball; Art Without Beauty; The Public Interest (Washington, DC); Apr 15, 1997.


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verb

    To cause inconvenience for: discomfort, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble. See comfort/discomfort.

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v

Definition: annoy
Antonyms: make happy, please


Translations: Discommode
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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - genere, være til besvær

Nederlands (Dutch)
in moeilijkheden brengen

Français (French)
v. tr. - incommoder

Deutsch (German)
v. - Unannehmlichkeiten verursachen, belästigen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - ξεβολεύω

Italiano (Italian)
scomodare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - incomodar, perturbar

Русский (Russian)
причинить неудобство

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - incomodar, molestar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - vålla besvär

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
使不方便, 使为难

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 使不方便, 使為難

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 신세를 끼치다, 부자유스럽게 하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 不便にする, 困らせる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يضايق, يزعج‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮גרם לאי-נוחות‬


 
 
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