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
"You will disarrange the manuscript, and you take no interest in these abstruse scientific studies."
From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
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
Fear disarranges circulation of the blood and the nourishment of muscle and nerve.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
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 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
Ellis Spear had come sleepily up, disarranged, eyes wide.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
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
You can't possibly tell it to me now, Boris," replied Nora; "don't attempt to come too near, disarranging my clouds.
From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade
She stretched out a hand for him to take, not disarranging her pose by rising and thus spoiling the composition.
From The Silver Butterfly by Howard Chandler Christy
