Definition of "consternate" []

• To cause consternation in. (verb-transitive)

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• "Thus there could be some back and fill in consumer sell-through the next month that will further consternate and confuse as to the underling, still upward trend."
• "She never let them bluff her or consternate her or put her off balance."
• "Here's another tetrapodomorph fish to consternate the creationists."