disarrange
Americanverb (used with object)
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disarranges,
present (3rd person singular)
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disarranged,
past participle, past
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disarranging
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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disarrangesimple
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disarrangessimple
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have disarrangedperfect
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has disarrangedperfect
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am disarrangingprogressive
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are disarrangingprogressive
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is disarrangingprogressive
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have been disarrangingperfect progressive
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has been disarrangingperfect progressive
Past
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disarrangedsimple
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had disarrangedperfect
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was disarrangingprogressive
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were disarrangingprogressive
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had been disarrangingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of disarrange
Example Sentences
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Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
“So your pelo loco, like clippings of grass, will not disarrange this house,” she says.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Eyes still watering and head still throbbing, he drew his wand, careful not to disarrange the Cloak, and waited, breath held.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Nobody wants an egg with a last-year’s date on it and the error is likely to disarrange the digestion of the hen.
From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed
The Queen had said that it was raining, and that if she went out in the rain she would soil her dress and disarrange her hair.
From Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes
That unleashed force is plied most artfully here to create a portrait of how grief unhinges, disarranges and heightens everyday life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
A similar expression now and again disarranges the handsome, sardonic features of the title character of “Butley” in Lindsay Posner’s engaging revival at the Duchess Theater.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2011
When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
And the contretemps of the last minute—a sudden death that disarranges the bridal party; a wretched cold that prevents a favorite cantatrice from singing, and so forth, and so forth.
From The Simple Life by Mary Louise Hendee
They run down to a relay, Ben, catching the electric waves striking the decoherer, which taps the coherer and disarranges a lot of brass filings by mechanical vibration.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster
Was her hair unkempt, or her clothing disarranged?
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
Those of us with brains long since disarranged from a lifelong soak in college football must adapt now.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022
For his solo work “Compression,” the choreographer Niall Jones has arranged, or disarranged, a small theater at Performance Space New York into this in-between state.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
Gaiman, craggily charismatic in black denim, thick hair artfully disarranged, English accent undimmed by years in the US, has a touch of the Crowley himself.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2019
His hair is all cowlicks and disarranged spikes.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
The monkey, disarranging her palm-oiled coiffure, is soon to go to the States.
From Time Magazine Archive
She hops onto the bed beside me, disarranging my small pile of threadbare stuffed animals—a koala, a snake, a black cat—all beloved of my seven-year-old self.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
She sank sobbing on her sister’s shoulder, sadly disarranging poor Fin’s dress; but that was forgotten as, with eager haste, the little maiden tried hard to soothe and comfort her.
From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn
She stretched out a hand for him to take, not disarranging her pose by rising and thus spoiling the composition.
From The Silver Butterfly by Howard Chandler Christy
Anders resisted the urge to scratch his head, for fear of disarranging his carefully combed hair.
From Warm by Ed Emshwiller
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