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Discomfiting
Answer for the clue "Discomfiting ", 8 letters:
abashing
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of abash English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abash \A*bash"\ ([.a]*b[a^]sh"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abashed ([.a]*b[a^]sht"); p. pr. & vb. n. Abashing .] [OE. abaissen, abaisshen, abashen, OF. esbahir, F. ['e]bahir, to astonish, fr. L. ex + the interjection bah, expressing astonishment. In OE. ...
Usage examples of abashing.
She could more easily have uttered the words to Captain Dartrey, after her remembered abashing holy tremour of the vision of doing it and casting herself on noblest man's compassionateness.