discomfits

bars, blocks, clogs, encumbers, fetters, hampers, handicaps, hinders, hobbles, holds back, impedes, inhibits, interferes (with), manacles, obstructs, shackles, ties up, trammels

arrests, checks, halts, sets back, short-circuits, stalls, stops

averts, forestalls, obviates, precludes, prevents

negates, neutralizes, nullifies

counteracts, offsets

conquers, defeats, overcomes

agitates, bothers, chagrins, discomforts, discomposes, dismays, disquiets, distresses, disturbs, perturbs, puts off, puts out, unhinges, unsettles, upsets

debases, degrades, demeans, humbles, humiliates, queers, shames