different between disorder vs discompose

English

Alternative forms

• disordre (obsolete)

Etymology

From dis- +? order. Middle English disordeine, from Old French desordainer, from Medieval Latin disordinare.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?s???d?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?s????d?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)
• Hyphenation: dis?or?der

Noun

disorder (countable and uncountable, plural disorders)

1. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.

2. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.

3. (medicine, countable) A physical or mental malfunction.

Synonyms

• (absence of order): chaos, entropy; see also Thesaurus:disorder
• (disturbance of civic peace): See also Thesaurus:riot

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

disorder (third-person singular simple present disorders, present participle disordering, simple past and past participle disordered)

1. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
2. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

Translations

Anagrams

• disordre, sordider

English

Etymology

dis- +? compose.

Verb

discompose (third-person singular simple present discomposes, present participle discomposing, simple past and past participle discomposed)

1. (transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 3:

     You will not be discomposed by the Lord Chancellor, I dare say?

2. (transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.

Synonyms

• agitate
• perturb
• unsettle

Translations

See also

• decompose

Italian

Verb

discompose

1. third-person singular past historic of discomporre