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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disorder \Dis*or"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disordered}; p. pr & vb n. {Disordering}.] 1. 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. --Jer. Taylor. 2. 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. --Macaulay. 3. To depose from holy orders [Obs.] --Dryden. Syn: To disarrange; derange; confuse; discompose. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disordered \Dis*or"dered\, a. 1. Thrown into disorder; deranged; as a disordered house, judgment. 2. Disorderly. [Obs.] --Shak. -- {Dis*or"dered*ly}, adv -- {Dis*or"dered*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: disordered adj 1: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: {broken}, {confused}, {upset}] 2: lacking orderly continuity; "a confused set of instructions"; "a confused dream about the end of the world"; "disconnected fragments of a story"; "scattered thoughts" [syn: {confused}, {disconnected}, {disjointed}, {garbled}, {illogical}, {scattered}, {unconnected}] 3: not arranged in order [syn: {unordered}] [ant: {ordered}]
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