disorder
/dɪsˈɔɹdɚ/ nom B2En français : désordre, trouble
- Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner. · After playing the children left the room in disorder.
- A disturbance of civic peace or of public order. · The class was thrown into disorder when the teacher left the room· The army tried to prevent disorder when claims the elections had been rigged grew stronger.
- A physical or mental malfunction. · Near-synonyms: disease, illness (both often synonymous)· Bulimia is an eating disorder.
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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.
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.
“I pretended that I had a disorder of the skin, and asked for a little sulphur, which was readily supplied.”
“Are you playing with justice, accused, and do you dare set your fellow-citizens an example of disorder which even in these times has never been equalled?”
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