verb
- to confuse or disconcert; to upset or frustrate
Usage: informal
Examples
- The complex math problem completely discombobulates me.
- All the noise and chaos discombobulates the new students.
- The sudden change in schedule discombobulates the entire team.
- Technology often discombobulates older adults.
- The magician’s trick discombobulates the audience.
- Moving to a new city discombobulates many people at first.