flusters

The wink flusters Lea; it also apparently primes her.

Not even her obliteration of such sacred territory as replacing Paul's traditional family tree with a bigger one flusters him, even though he didn't ask.

If Geno Smith can continue his hot start and the defense flusters Trey Lance like the Bears did last week, it’s a game they could win.

She teaches English, flusters the principal and flirts with a colleague.

A bit of a hillbilly intellectual without much formal schooling, a void in his resume that both flusters and propels him.