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Disarray   /dˌɪsərˈeɪ/   Listen
noun
Disarray  n.  
1.
Want of array or regular order; disorder; confusion. "Disrank the troops, set all in disarray."
2.
Confused attire; undress.


verb
Disarray  v. t.  (past & past part. disarrayed; pres. part. disarraying)  
1.
To throw into disorder; to break the array of. "Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged."
2.
To take off the dress of; to unrobe. "So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed."





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"Disarray" Quotes from Famous Books



... white under her eyes, that left the lower part of her face in shadow. The eyes were shining with that dissolving supernatural light, that comes with terrible spiritual hunger. Her dark hair had fallen in disarray. ...
— Fate Knocks at the Door - A Novel • Will Levington Comfort
... But now again to the point: for if we fall among the potsherds we shall hobble on but lamely. Since thou art raised unto a high command in the army, and hast a dragoon to hold thy solid and stately piece of horse-flesh, I cannot but take it into my fancy that thou hast some commission of array or disarray to execute hereabout. ...
— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor
... in Captain Dabney's easy chair at the farther end of the cabin table. The table was littered with the debris of a meal, which Charley Bo Yip was phlegmatically and deftly clearing away, and Martin stared across the board's disarray at Wild Bob Carew's disdainful face. The erstwhile commander of the schooner Dawn, his comrades' unscrupulous enemy, his own rival, was the same aloof, superior rogue he remembered from ...
— Fire Mountain - A Thrilling Sea Story • Norman Springer
... said Marcia. She and Galen were alone with Pertinax, who looked splendid in his official toga. She was herself in disarray. Her woman had tried to dress her hair on the way in the litter; one long coil of it was tumbling on her shoulder. She looked ...
— Caesar Dies • Talbot Mundy
... shabby gentility and the dinginess of "reduced circumstances." He would have been, I suppose, some fifty years of age; but his pale haggard unwholesome visage, his plaintive drooping carriage and the irremediable disarray of his apparel seemed to add to the burden of his days and tribulations. His eyes were weak and bloodshot, his bold nose was sadly compromised, and his reddish beard, largely streaked with grey, bristled under a month's neglect of the razor. In all this rusty forlornness lurked a visible assurance ...
— A Passionate Pilgrim • Henry James


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