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verb (used with object), dis·com·bob·u·lat·ed, dis·com·bob·u·lat·ing.
- to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
verb
- (tr) informal, mainly US and Canadian to throw into confusion
1834, American English, fanciful coinage of a type popular then (originally discombobricate). Related: discombobulating; discombobulation.