| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | separate at joint |
| Synonyms: | disarrange, disarticulate, dislocate, dismember, luxate |
| Main Entry: | dismember |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut into pieces |
| Synonyms: | amputate, anatomize, cripple, disassemble, disjoint, dislimb, dislocate, dismantle, dismount, dissect, divide, maim, mutilate, part, rend, sever, sunder, take down |
| Antonyms: | join |
| Main Entry: | disorder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up, disarrange |
| Synonyms: | clutter, confound, confuse, derange, discompose, discreate, dishevel, disjoint, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, distemper, disturb, embroil, jumble, mess up, muddle, muss up, rummage, rumple, scatter, shuffle, tumble, unsettle, upset |
| Antonyms: | arrange, conform, neaten, order, regulate, systematize |
| Main Entry: | dissect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up; take apart |
| Synonyms: | anatomize, break up, cut, dichotomize, disjoin, disjoint, dislimb, dismember, dissever, divide, exscind, exsect, lay open, operate, part, prosect, quarter, section, sever, slice, sunder |
| Antonyms: | connect, join, mend, sew |
| Main Entry: | separate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove something from group; keep or set apart |
| Synonyms: | break, break off, cleave, come apart, come away, come between, detach, dichotomize, disconnect, disentangle, disjoin, disjoint, dissect, dissever, distribute, divide, divorce, intersect, part, rupture, sever, split, split up, sunder, uncombine, uncouple, undo |
| Antonyms: | combine, join, mix, unite |
| Main Entry: | sever |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dissociate |
| Synonyms: | abandon, break off, disjoint, dissolve, divide, divorce, put an end to, separate, terminate |
| Antonyms: | associate, unite |
| Main Entry: | disunite |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | detach |
| Synonyms: | alienate, disband, disconnect, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, dissolve, divide, divorce, estrange, part, separate, sever, sunder |
| Antonyms: | unite |
| Concept: | [Absence, or want of order] Disorder. |
| Category: | 1. ORDER |
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-nouns
disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; disunion; discord., confusion; confusedness; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles [Ovid]., turmoil; ferment (agitation); to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business.
-verbs
-adjectives
disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear; irregular, desultory; anomalous (unconformable); acephalous, deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical, immethodical; unsymmetric, unsystematic; untidy, slovenly; dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical; unarranged; confused; deranged; topsy-turvy (inverted) [more]; shapeless; disjointed, out of joint., troublous; riotous (violent).
-adverbs
irregularly; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down.
-phrases
the cart before the horse; chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds" [Addison].
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| Antonyms: | order |
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