disorder
/dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/ verb C2- To throw into a state of disorder.
- To knock out of order or sequence.
He/she/it disorders · Past disordered · Past participle disordered · -ing form disordering
Verb forms
- Base form
- disorder
- He/she/it
- disorders
- Past
- disordered
- Past participle
- disordered
- -ing form
- disordering
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As we had no doctor on board, and he was so anxious to arrive at Elba, that he would not touch at any other port, his disorder rose to such a height, that at the end of the third day, feeling he was dying, he called me to him.
Her freckles were more numerous and obtrusive than ever; the wind had ruffled her hatless hair into over-brilliant disorder; it had never looked redder than at that moment.
“I pretended that I had a disorder of the skin, and asked for a little sulphur, which was readily supplied.”
Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.
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