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disarray
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disarray \Dis`ar*ray"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disarrayed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disarraying .] [Pref. dis- + array, v.: cf. OF. desarroyer, desarreier.] To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "disorder, confusion;" see disarray (v.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE total ▪ On the evening of 20 November the Prime Minister's swift decision to fight on plunged the Conservatives into almost total disarray . ▪ They were in total disarray from the start. ▪ However, John de Wolf ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; "a confusion of impressions" [syn: confusion , mental confusion , confusedness ] untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) [syn: disorderliness ] v. bring disorder ...
Usage examples of disarray.
Her long slightly curly hair was spread all around her, in waves of disarray upon her pillow.
Shuffling her shoes into the corner, Diane continued with the farce that Cardiff demanded, prying into tables, book-cases and elsewhere, leaving everything in disarray.
I got back to my little bunk and saw it in a state of terrible disarray, I remembered that Debs should have been here but was, instead, in the hospital.
The stately disarray of lodgepole pine, Engelmann spruce, and alpine fir yielded to the rolling grasslands of Hayden Valley.
But at the very time when an ideologically cohesive party could pick up the pieces and forge a sustaining majority, the Republican Party is in total disarray.
Hota apologized for its sorry condition, but Magali paid no attention to the disarray and walked over to the wall beside his bed and began to inspect the weathered gray boards, running her forefinger along the black complexities of their grain, appearing to admire them as though they were made of the finest marble.
My hand darted under the coat, brushing over a bare thigh, a little too slowly to catch her hand, but the disarray of her skirt and the damp nether strip of her panties gave her away.
The pieces are all in disarray, and I cannot recall a single move that was made.
His sandy disarray of hair looked even more tousled than usual, and he moved spryly for a man in his late thirties.
Restless, unable to sleep, he paced the bartizans and battlements, his short cloak flying out behind him like wings, his unkempt hair streaming back from his head in wild disarray.
One small ship with minuscule guns had driven the battlewagons into disarray, giving the baby flattops a few minutes of respite.
These trees were the carpetbaggers of an ecological society smashed and in disarray: thorn, mesquite, cabbage palm, winding lianas.
Here, in full color and again in black and white, I could see fabric, crowded countertops in use, sofa pillows in disarray, a vase full of sagging flowers in an inch of darkened water, rag rugs, the spindle-lathed wooden chair legs.
Despite the malicious attacks on him, the furor over the Alien and Sedition Acts, unpopular taxes, betrayals by his own cabinet, the disarray of the Federalists, and the final treachery of Hamilton, he had, in fact, come very close to winning in the electoral count.
The gawks looked confused and immobilized now that their Verities were all in disarray.