Usually means: Confuse, disconcert, or throw off.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. discombobulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. discombobulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. discombobulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. discombobulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. discombobulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. discombobulate: Wordnik
  7. discombobulate: Wiktionary
  8. discombobulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. discombobulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. discombobulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. discombobulate: Dictionary.com
  12. discombobulate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Discombobulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. discombobulate: Rhymezone
  15. discombobulate: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. discombobulate: FreeDictionary.org
  17. discombobulate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. discombobulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Discombobulate: The Word Detective
  20. discombobulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Discombobulate: World Wide Words
  22. discombobulate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. discombobulate: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. discombobulate: A Word A Day
  2. discombobulate: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. discombobulate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. discombobulate: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive, humorous) To throw into a state of confusion; to befuddle or perplex.

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