disarrange
verb (used with object)
to disturb the arrangement of; disorder; unsettle.
had disarranged
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past perfectof disarrange.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The industrial disturbance had disarranged for the time the elaborate Northern system.
From The New Nation by William E. Dodd
Her poor wagging head was quite grey; there were any number of grey locks which the wind had disarranged.
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
Only the agencies of sand and wind had disarranged the distribution on which the builders of the earliest dynasty had looked.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
Ten o'clock passed, and eleven, with no sign from Doddridge Knapp, and I wondered if the news I had carried him of the activities of Terrill and of Decker had disarranged his plans.
From Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott
Light, touching his short blond hair, made it glossy like a boy's where his hand had disarranged it above the forehead.
From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
