English > disarrange: 2 senses > verb 1, contact| Meaning | Destroy the arrangement / arrangement or order of. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
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| Example | "My son disarranged the papers on my desk" |
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| Narrower | muss, tussle | make messy or untidy |
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| ruffle, ruffle up, rumple, mess up | disturb the smoothness of |
| tousle, dishevel, tangle | disarrange or rumple |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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| Opposite | arrange, set up | put into a proper or systematic order |
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| Spanish | desarreglar, descomponer |
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| Catalan | desarranjar, desarreglar, descompondre |
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| Nouns | disarrangement | a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted |
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