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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
disarray .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective in disarray
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Examples
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Without more detail about exactly how her clothing was "disarrayed," I can't surmise whether she had begun to undress when she was attacked; whether the killer rearranged, undid, cut, or ripped her clothing; whether he did so before or after her death.
Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930
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He creaked to his knees and gathered them up, fetched some yellow glue and elastic bands from the kitchen drawer and, at his desk, stuck the disarrayed pages back together.
Two Poets Carol Reid 2011
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But the mirror in front of her showed only her own pale, anxious face and disarrayed hair.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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But the mirror in front of her showed only her own pale, anxious face and disarrayed hair.
THE FORBIDDEN GAME L.J. SMITH 2010
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Gabriel stared at him, his hair disarrayed, his green eyes brilliant with rage.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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As accounts were frequently disarrayed in towns like Dunnsbroke, he took up lodgings in Mrs. Winscombe's boardinghouse; his job would not be a quick one.
Rev. Jasper Pickery and Three Manifestations of the Devil 2009
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You know what I mean - the big stack, lying there, staring at you, their disarrayed spines accusing you ... make them stop!
Jilly Gagnon: Those Books You REALLY Mean to Get Around to Reading...No, REALLY 2009
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The young-Earth creationists cite evidence selectively, mentioning when dinosaur bones were found in a disarrayed "log jam", without mentioning that the bones showed various degrees of erosion, from very little to the presence of bone "pebbles" warn extensively by the elements and most likely transported as well p.271.
Archive 2009-04-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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Only one person can unite the disarrayed Republican party and her name is Hillary Clinton.
Your Election Central Guide To The Weekend Dem Contests 2009
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It would've been anyway, but Jesus, with the state of the GOP right now -- the daily bukkake of crazy coming from the disarrayed pack of howler monkeys that used to be an actual political party -- can you imagine what Obama's nominee is going to have to endure?
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