The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disorder \Dis*or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disordered; p. pr. & vb. n. Disordering.]
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To disturb the order of; to derange or disarrange; to throw into confusion; to confuse.
Disordering the whole frame or jurisprudence.
--Burke.The burden . . . disordered the aids and auxiliary rafters into a common ruin.
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To disturb or interrupt the regular and natural functions of (either body or mind); to produce sickness or indisposition in; to discompose; to derange; as, to disorder the head or stomach.
A man whose judgment was so much disordered by party spirit.
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To depose from holy orders. [Obs.]
--Dryden.Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose.
Wiktionary
n. The removal of order
Usage examples of "disordering".
Lucien, surprised and charmed, looked by turns at this handsome tormented face with hollow eyes and those long delicate fingers, Bergère spoke often of Rimbaud and the "systematic disordering of all the senses.
Rimbaud's pederasty is the primary and genial disordering of his sensitivity.
If he went to the very end, if he really practised the disordering of the senses, would he lose his footing and drown?
Four steps away, she stopped in order to pull back from the precipice of disordering emotions.
Thanks affectionately said to Julie, disordering the hair of their student.
On occasion, two or three or more of them had butted the side of a ship in unison, disordering the crew just before a pirate ship closed with the vessel.