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
He hands them to me and I shuffle and disarrange them as much as possible.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood Mason
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
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 is a sort of derivative which disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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
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
She glanced round the room to make certain that nothing was disarranged or out of place.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
Why did she go to the prayer-meeting, disarranging the whole household?
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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
She wore nothing over her head, for fear of disarranging the light Princess-of-Wales' fringe curling on her forehead.
From Consequences by E. M. Delafield
