Discombobulate in a sentence as a verb

They were also a bazillion dollars then, with a dedicated box to discombobulate all the phase stuff.

I'm pretty sure some alarms use a strobe light at a particular frequency combined with a loud 2kHz tone to discombobulate intruders.

Sorry for the tangent, but why does this word get a "y" in the "dys", when any other "dis" word is spelled with an "i": disturb, disrespect, discombobulate, disconcerting, etc.

This covers not only compound words but weirder cases of combination of disparate etymological sources—check out discombobulate or typhoon.

Discombobulate definitions

verb

cause to be confused emotionally

See also: bewilder bemuse throw

verb

be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"

See also: confuse throw befuddle fuddle bedevil confound