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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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18 words match “DISARRANGE”

DISARRANGE v.
To unsettle or disturb the order or due arrangement of; to throw out of order.
DISARRANGEMENT n.
The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.
CLUTTER v.
ogether in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.
DERANGE v.
ngement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation.
DERANGEMENT n.
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
DISCOMPOSE v.
To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up. Or discomposed the headdress of a prude. Pope.
DISHEVELED a.
Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.
DISMARSHAL v.
To disarrange; to derange; to put in disorder. [R.] Drummond.
DISORDER v.
To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse. Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence. Burke. The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin. Jer. Taylor.
DISORDERLY a.
Not in order; marked by disorder; disarranged; immethodical; as, the books and papers are in a disorderly state.
DISORDINANCE n.
Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DISORGANIZE v.
ociety, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).
DISRANGE v.
To disarrange. [Obs.] Wood.
MISCHIEF n.
Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. Chaucer. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. Ps. lii. 2. The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many…
MUSS v.
To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple. [Colloq. U.S.]
MUSSY a.
Disarranged; rumpled. [Colloq. U.S.]
PI v.
To put into a mixed and disordered condition, as type; to mix and disarrange the type of; as, to pi a form. [Written also pie.]
SQUABBLE v.
To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.