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Incommode (verb) means to make someone feel uncomfortable or unsettled.

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1
To make someone feel uncomfortable or unsettled.
"She had managed to incommode and discredit that pair almost as much as any pair could be incommoded and discredited, although they were the most harmless couple in the world." — Ford Madox Ford (1928)
2
To cause someone trouble or get in their way.
"While incommoding the king, and apparently siding with the commons, the parlements were defending sectional interests and unleashing a crisis of legitimacy that would undermine both the monarchy and nobility." — Rory O’Connell, Recovering the History of Human Rights: Public Finances and Human Rights (2013)
"Information is all around us, now more than ever before in human history. You barely have to stir or incommode yourself to find things out." — Stephen Fry, College to Colleague (2010)
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Etymology

Learned borrowing from French incommoder (“to bother, disconcert, incommode”), from Latin incommodāre, the present active infinitive of incommodō (“to inconvenience”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodō (“to accommodate, adapt; to bestow, provide; to hire, lend”) (from com- (a variant of con- (prefix indicating completeness or intensification)) + modō (the ablative or singular of modus (“manner, method, way; bound, limit; measure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”))). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (“(archaic or obsolete) to provide (someone or something) with an appropriate, suitable, or necessary thing; to meet the requirements of (someone or something), suit; to repair (something)”).

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What is the meaning of incommode?
"incommode" (verb) means to make someone feel uncomfortable or unsettled.
What is another word for incommode?
Other words for "incommode" include bother, discommode, inconvenience, trouble, disoblige.
What is the opposite of incommode?
Opposites of "incommode" include help, support, succour, assist, aid.
What are the different meanings of incommode?
"incommode" has 2 main meanings: 1. To make someone feel uncomfortable or unsettled; 2. To cause someone trouble or get in their way.

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