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
A ‘muffetee’ is a little muff, and a ‘chapeau-bras’ is a hat never worn, but made to be carried under the arm by men or women; for the men hated to disarrange their wigs.
From English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop
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
He's supposed to be on duty at the guard-camp, and his riding back to the home ranch completely disarranges the landscape.
From A Man in the Open by Roger Pocock
Its harmony is its health; and to differ with it is heresy or treason, because social discord inflicts individual misery; and what disturbs and disarranges society, impairs the happiness and well-being of its members.
From Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh
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
Gaiman, craggily charismatic in black denim, thick hair artfully disarranged, English accent undimmed by years in the US, has a touch of the Crowley himself.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2019
Estranged, disarranged, we spend our darkest hours staring at those pearls, those coral bones.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
Anders resisted the urge to scratch his head, for fear of disarranging his carefully combed hair.
From Warm by Ed Emshwiller
Many days, many hours, has Mr. Redmond spent arranging and disarranging all the details of the proposed concert.
From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess
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
