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Discomfort   /dɪskˈəmfərt/   Listen
noun
Discomfort  n.  
1.
Discouragement. (Obs.)
2.
Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." "Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings."


verb
Discomfort  v. t.  (past & past part. discomforted; pres. part. discomforting)  
1.
To discourage; to deject. "His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us."
2.
To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive of quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.





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"Discomfort" Quotes from Famous Books



... the direction of the bench, taking care to approach it from behind, so as to be spared the discomfort of a ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... scrape a hollow in the ground, of the shape shown in fig. 2 (next page), before spreading their sleeping-rugs. It is disagreeable enough to lie on a perfectly level surface, like that of a floor, but the acme of discomfort is to lie upon a convexity. Persons who have omitted to make a shapely lair for themselves, should at least scrape a hollow in the ground, just where the hip-bone would ...
— The Art of Travel - Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries • Francis Galton
... the door, overcome by a singular feeling of discomfort. When his nephews had vigorously shaken hands with him, he sat down near the window apart from them, as if he felt out ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... from her great height she was almost certain to spill food on the table before she got a dish set down before them; and that she kept bouncing in and out of the dining room to ask them if they were ready for dessert; she managed to get through the meal without making Mr. Day and Janice any great discomfort. ...
— Janice Day, The Young Homemaker • Helen Beecher Long
... candle lighted, I resigned myself to a ghastly night. I don't like discomfort, though I can put up with it when I must. The bed looked as hard as nails; the bowl made cleanliness a duty, not a pleasure. And to think that I might have been sleeping ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti


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