† scomfituren.
Obsolete.
Discomfiture, defeat.
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confusionc1290
scomfit13..
cumber1303
discomfitc1330
scomfitingc1333
discomfiturea1400
scomfiturea1400
discomfitingc1405
overthrowc1440
male journey1455
overset1456
foilc1478
discomforture1485
supprise1488
reversea1529
distrage?1548
loss1548
defeat1553
underdeal1553
discomfort1589
defeatment1598
defeature1598
rufflec1600
defeatance1608
routa1616
Caudine Forks1619
disrout1623
conviction1631
bang1644
derout1644
conquest1677
drubbing1769
check1793
thrashing1797
sauve-qui-peut1815
debacle1847
smash1888
pasting1942
a1400 Guy Warw. 5235 Wel gret it was þe scomfitour.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1561 Skilfulle skomfyture he skiftez as hym lykez.
c1450 Brut 439 But God was lord and maistir of that victorie and scomfiture.
c1471 in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 278 When the comens the skomfertour did understonde, Thay seuyd owte freshly, thay kepud none araye.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cxi. f. l He made a newe voyage ageyne theym, & made of theym a nother scomfiture.
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n.a1400- fall behind
- fall behindhand
- fall between two stools
- fall block
- fall by
- fall by planets
- fall by the ears
- fall by the lee
- fall by the way
- fall by the wayside
- fall calm
- fall cankerworm
- fall classic
- fall cloud
- fall dead
- fall door
- fall down
- fall down dead
- fall down muzzling
- fall down on the job
- fall equinox
- fall etc into oblivion
- fall evening
- fall face on
- fall fever