Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To upset the proper arrangement or order of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put out of order; unsettle or disturb the order or arrangement of; derange.
- Synonyms To disorder, derange, confuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
undo thearrangement of; todisorder ; toderange .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb disturb the arrangement of
- verb destroy the arrangement or order of
Etymologies
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Examples
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I would have had at her before she even set out, but she was all a-fuss tucking little Havvy into his cot - as though the nurse couldn't do it ten times better - and was fearful that I would disarrange her appearance.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
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I lay down to rest with my hands at my sides, so as not to disarrange my tidy pleats.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I lay down to rest with my hands at my sides, so as not to disarrange my tidy pleats.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I lay down to rest with my hands at my sides, so as not to disarrange my tidy pleats.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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In the northwest, troop desertions will plague the Ottomans, and even farther west, in the Christian kingdoms, inexplicable diseases will disarrange the lips of kings.
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I should have been side by side with you in your existence, having for my only care not to disarrange the cover of my dreadful pit.
Les Miserables 2008
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I easily suppressed this untimely sensation; and as I returned thanks, and expressed my hope that I should not disarrange, his family, I once more dropped a hint of my desire to make compensation for any trouble I might occasion.
Redgauntlet 2008
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I wept & railed at Dennis, told him not to take my clothes away, not to disarrange my study.
I'm clearing out things of a loved one who died Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Have I the right to disarrange what it has arranged?
Les Miserables 2008
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When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, thanks to the suburban man of
Les Miserables 2008
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