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disarrange

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Etymology

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From dis- +‎ arrange.

Verb

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disarrange (third-person singular simple present disarranges, present participle disarranging, simple past and past participle disarranged)

  1. To undo the arrangement of; to disorder; to derange.
    • 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: [], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, [], →OCLC:
      Stay, dear, you will disarrange your curls—let me untie your hat.
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VI [Uniform ed., p. 69]:
      In his short life Ricky had known two sudden deaths, and that is enough to disarrange any placid outlook on the world.

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