DISARRANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disarrange mean? 

• DISARRANGE (verb)
  The verb DISARRANGE has 2 senses:

1. destroy the arrangement or order of

2. disturb the arrangement of

  Familiarity information: DISARRANGE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISARRANGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disarrange    ... he / she / it disarranges   
Past simple: disarranged   
Past participle: disarranged   
-ing form: disarranging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Destroy the arrangement or order of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

My son disarranged the papers on my desk

Hypernyms (to "disarrange" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disarrange"):

mess up; ruffle; ruffle up; rumple (disturb the smoothness of)

muss; tussle (make messy or untidy)

dishevel; tangle; tousle (disarrange or rumple; dishevel)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

arrange (put into a proper or systematic order)

Derivation:

disarrangement (a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Disturb the arrangement of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

disarrange the papers

Hypernyms (to "disarrange" is one way to...):

disarray; disorder (bring disorder to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disarrange"):

randomise; randomize (arrange in random order)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

disarrangement (a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted)

 Context examples 

Hurry—hurry, before things get disarranged.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wouldn’t we have found the place disarranged, and missed the things which he had taken?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No need to warn her not to disarrange her attire: when she was dressed, she sat demurely down in her little chair, taking care previously to lift up the satin skirt for fear she should crease it, and assured me she would not stir thence till I was ready.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Nothing had been stolen or disarranged, and there is absolutely no explanation of what the horror can be which has frightened a woman to death and two strong men out of their senses.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all. Then new arrivals disarranged the line and Jordan and I were pushed suddenly inside.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)