Disaccommodate

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To cause inconvenience or discomfort to someone by failing to provide expected hospitality or accommodations; to make a situation less comfortable or convenient for an individual; to deny or withdraw customary or needed services
2. To fail to fulfill hospitality or necessary arrangements, resulting in someone feeling inconvenienced or displaced; to impose inconvenience by not accommodating someone's requirements; to disrupt or remove accommodations or comforts from a person
3. To subject someone to hardship or inconvenience by withholding expected support or lodging; to render a circumstances unfavorable by not meeting accommodation needs; to inconvenience through lack of provision or hospitality adjustments

Etymology: "Disaccommodate" is a deliberate-looking formation: English took the verb "accommodate" from Latin "accommodare", meaning to fit, adapt or make suitable, and then attached the prefix "dis-" to reverse it, meaning to make unsuitable or to cause trouble. Latin "accommodare" itself grew from "ad" (toward) and "commodus", which meant fitting, convenient or suitable, a word built on "modus" (measure). So the family of words is rooted in the idea of measure and fitness. The word is recorded in English from the late 1500s, when "accommodate" had long been used in the sense of making things suit one another. The prefix "dis-" in English is a borrowing from Latin and French that usually reverses or removes the sense of the base word, so "disaccommodate" is the opposite of "accommodate" in that straightforward way: where accommodating someone makes life easier for them, disaccommodating them makes it harder.