disarrange
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Then guards would deliberately disarrange the pile and announce that everyone must be dressed in five minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
“So your pelo loco, like clippings of grass, will not disarrange this house,” she says.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
Eyes still watering and head still throbbing, he drew his wand, careful not to disarrange the Cloak, and waited, breath held.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
When doing the finest work they have to keep their doors and windows closed, for the least draught would break or disarrange the delicate filaments.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
Displace, dis-plās′, v.t. to put out of place: to disarrange: to remove from a state, office, or dignity.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
That unleashed force is plied most artfully here to create a portrait of how grief unhinges, disarranges and heightens everyday life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2019
A similar expression now and again disarranges the handsome, sardonic features of the title character of “Butley” in Lindsay Posner’s engaging revival at the Duchess Theater.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2011
When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
The inclination to fits of temper loosens and disarranges all the little wires of life.
From Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson
It is a sort of derivative which disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
It doesn't take long to decide whether Netflix’s “3 Body Problem” is extraordinary or a disarranged travesty.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2024
Those of us with brains long since disarranged from a lifelong soak in college football must adapt now.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2022
For his solo work “Compression,” the choreographer Niall Jones has arranged, or disarranged, a small theater at Performance Space New York into this in-between state.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
The 52-year-old Johnson has managed to use his disarranged, slightly comical hair as a helmet, shielding him from more serious scrutiny.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 21, 2016
Her cheek was deeply flushed and her hair disarranged.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
The monkey, disarranging her palm-oiled coiffure, is soon to go to the States.
From Time Magazine Archive
She hops onto the bed beside me, disarranging my small pile of threadbare stuffed animals—a koala, a snake, a black cat—all beloved of my seven-year-old self.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
I counted on him as a matter of course, he is so obliging—always willing to take me wherever I want to go, and often disarranging his own engagements so that I need not be disappointed.
From The Chautauqua Girls At Home by Pansy
Schmul became plainly confused, and raised his hand to his head, disarranging his skull cap which covered his long dishevelled hair.
From An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story by C. S. de Soissons
As well as she could without disarranging the set of it, she smoothed each long curl into order as she walked along.
From A Sheaf of Corn by Mary E. Mann
