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
“Just as I might disarrange the cushions of your chair?”
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
Nobody wants an egg with a last-year’s date on it and the error is likely to disarrange the digestion of the hen.
From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed
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
It is usually better to shake up and rearrange the pillows after raising the patient as the moving disarranges them somewhat.
From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Fear disarranges circulation of the blood and the nourishment of muscle and nerve.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
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
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
Why did she go to the prayer-meeting, disarranging the whole household?
From Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
Still Völgyeshy persisted; but the recorder interfered, saying, that the mildness which the sheriff had recommended could not, by any means, be carried to the bursting open and disarranging the larder of the sheriff's wife.
From The Village Notary by J?zsef E?tv?s
I have seen her walk along the edge of every shelf on the dresser, without disarranging a single plate.
From Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain by Julia Charlotte Maitland
