discombobulate

Part of the fun of new music is that it often does discombobulate us.

A third sense, often combined with up, means "confuse, discombobulate."

It would discombobulate Congress and disserve the public for months.

Andrew Martin looks to the skies, to those rumblings that always discombobulate him.

But there's enough left to discombobulate even the biggest of predictive computers.'

The author's objective is to discombobulate as well as entertain the theatergoer.

The notes zigzag in his pieces and discombobulate the ear, just as in 12-tone works.

Olivia felt a flush start on her cheeks, and she was embarrassed that such a simple thing should discombobulate her so.

We don't want to discombobulate you unnecessarily.

Who better to discombobulate the mind than Olajuwon, the league's most valuable player last season and the anchor of an imposing Houston front line?

You have no black support to lose, and this would thoroughly discombobulate those of us in Israel's Amen Corner.

It could discombobulate the whole process and put a greater emphasis on Iowa and Hampshire."

When Jane Bayard and her husband split in the early 80's they didn't want to further discombobulate their children, then 12 and 14.

Some say that the unfamiliar prices, may so discombobulate people that they put off buying anything but immediate necessities, leading to an economic slowdown.

These deals discombobulate both customers and employees, they say, and distract top management from other important undertakings, like dealing with the Internet.

"Anytime you discombobulate the status quo, the insiders are going to make sure you have a tough time," he said.

Some are compelled by their jobs to work when others sleep: a quarter of employed Americans work rotating shifts that discombobulate their biological clocks.

And the harmonic language, while essentially rooted in diatonic keys, amounts to a textbook in how to discombobulate and burst the tonal system.

There's another peroxide blond turning heads at the Great Western Forum, and this one may completely discombobulate the Lakers.

She was Betan; maybe m'lord's last remarks wouldn't discombobulate her as much as they did Roic.

Hence the appalling oil discharge into the Persian Gulf, designed to complicate any amphibious assault, to disrupt military and civil water supplies and to discombobulate allied thinking.

For all I knew, this guy might have been stuck inside a queen robot on that first night, when Sam got me to crush the crystal globe and discombobulate them all.

It took thirteen years of hard labor on his part and on mine to discombobulate my trust in the normal system of cognition that makes the world around us comprehensible to us.

He said he and Huggins, who are friends, sat down some time ago and hatched some of the defensive schemes the Bearcats used to discombobulate the Aggies this afternoon.

Wilde's comic style had tragic consequences because one cannot be comic in a serious context without also being serious, and his determination to discombobulate the bourgeoisie was not regarded as a joke.