as in to bewilder
to throw into a state of mental uncertainty
our grandmother seems a bit discombobulated by all of this birthday fuss
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Recent Examples of discombobulate
Still just 21 years old, Duren is one of the league’s most prolific rebounders and lob finishers, but opposing offenses run constant pick-and-rolls at him, which can discombobulate Detroit’s otherwise staunch defense.
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Fred Katz, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Watching from the perspective of 2025 is a discombobulating experience.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, Thielow’s camera captures her kids in tender moments, clinging to her or sometimes discombobulated by their mother’s absence.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 12 Sep. 2025
Kavya tugs on my arm, her nose is scrunched up, eyebrows discombobulated.
—Navdeep Singh Dhillon, Parents, 21 Aug. 2025
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But unlike his Sophoclean namesake, Orestes is bewildered by this escalation and refuses.—
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In April, the president was among those bewildered by his fall.—
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The 40-year-old cooks up ways to make quarterbacks miserable in his sleep, devising schemes that are meant to lure as much as they are intended to confuse.—
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Canales-Pelaez said that local departments may be confusing administrative warrants with criminal ones, or overcomplying to avoid backlash from the state Legislature.—
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Experts on childhood disease were baffled by the change in guidance.—
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Experts on childhood disease were baffled by the change in guidance.—
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The disjunction between the abstract composition and the notion of self-portraiture appeared perplexing in its own right; its inoperability only exacerbated the viewer’s frustration and redoubled the artist’s impish provocation.—
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But the unknown in that equation is what perplexes the Mavericks and has the team stuck for now.—
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Her mysterious symptoms puzzled doctors, at least one of whom suggested the pain was psychosomatic.—
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Further study is also needed to untangle one puzzling finding.—
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Berube was befuddled by the way his team started the third, a problem that lies at the feet of the players as well as the coach.—
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The husbands are befuddled by their countryside existence while their pregnant wives engage in a bizarre friendship.—
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“Discombobulate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/discombobulate. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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