disorder
noun
lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion.
have disordered
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present perfectof disorder.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“Uranus and Neptune have disordered magnetic fields because they produce these fields in a thin water-rich layer in their mantles while our Earth generates its magnetic field in the core,” Militzer said.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2024
“I know what it’s like to have disordered eating. I know what it’s like to have to go out there by yourself.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2019
Ovshinsky is working with "ovonic" materials that have disordered or amorphous atoms.
From Time Magazine Archive
Captain Devilson, what care I?—Do you see how you have disordered your lady?
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 5 by Samuel Richardson
His success proved that no romance is too wild to be received with faith by understandings which fear and hatred have disordered.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
