disarrange

English

Etymology

Verb

disarrange (third-person singular simple present disarranges, present participle disarranging, simple past and past participle disarranged)

To undo the arrangement of; to disorder; to derange.
- 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
  Stay, dear, you will disarrange your curls—let me untie your hat.
- 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, VI [Uniform ed., p. 69]:
  In his short life Ricky had known two sudden deaths, and that is enough to disarrange any placid outlook on the world.

Derived terms

disarrangement

Translations

undo the arrangement of

Bulgarian: разбърквам (bg) (razbǎrkvam), разбутвам (bg) (razbutvam)
Greek: ανακατεύω (el) (anakatévo)
Ido: desaranjar (io)
Maori: tarihahohaho, whakatōhenehene

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