DISARRANGE
Dictionary entry overview: What does disarrange mean?
• DISARRANGE (verb)
The verb DISARRANGE has 2 senses:
1. destroy the arrangement or order of
2. disturb the arrangement of
Familiarity information: DISARRANGE used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DISARRANGE (verb)
Meaning:
Destroy the arrangement or order of
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
My son disarranged the papers on my desk
Hypernyms (to "disarrange" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disarrange"):
mess up; ruffle; ruffle up; rumple (disturb the smoothness of)
muss; tussle (make messy or untidy)
dishevel; tangle; tousle (disarrange or rumple; dishevel)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Antonym:
arrange (put into a proper or systematic order)
Meaning:
Disturb the arrangement of
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
disarrange the papers
Hypernyms (to "disarrange" is one way to...):
disarray; disorder (bring disorder to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disarrange"):
randomise; randomize (arrange in random order)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
