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
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
“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
Discompose, dis-kom-pōz′, v.t. to deprive of composure: to disarrange, to disorder: to disturb: to agitate.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Understand me, I am not afraid of it; but it might disarrange some of my plans.
From The Boss of Wind River by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
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
That is not altogether good for a youngster; it disarranges his mind and puts him out of harmony with what is permanent.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
They run down to a relay, Ben, catching the electric waves striking the decoherer, which taps the coherer and disarranges a lot of brass filings by mechanical vibration.
From The Boys of the Wireless by Frank V. Webster
Was her hair unkempt, or her clothing disarranged?
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
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 54-year-old Johnson has managed to use his disarranged, slightly comical hair as a helmet, shielding him from more serious scrutiny.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 9, 2018
My spirits were so disarranged, my nerves so clamorous in their confusion, that no course of thought, speech, or action presented itself.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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
"What are you disarranging my desk for?" interrupted his father.
From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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
Just as near as I can get!” and Andy hitched his chair a little closer, thereby disarranging the table even more than he had done before.
From Molly Brown's College Friends by Nell Speed
