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Definition of disordering : of Disorder

Synonyms:

disruption, disorganization, upset, order

disconnecting, diffracting, diverging, distributing, diffusing, detaching, evanescing, dissolving, evaporating, radiating, refracting, separating, disbursing, dispersing, disintegrating, breaking up, doling

displacing, convulsing, discomposing, disarranging, tampering, muddling, scattering, deranging, jumbling, disturbing, meddling, swirling, whisking, tossing, ruffling, dislocating, mislaying, confusing, troubling, roiling, fermenting, roughening, churning, rummaging, mixing up, messing, disheveling, botching, capsizing, misplacing, confounding, agitating, tumbling, cluttering, upsetting, scrambling, rumpling, rippling, hashing, perturbing, whipping, disorganizing, tousling, blurring, mussing

Usage examples:

• " That's a good deal so," said Fulkerson, disordering his hair. - "A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth", William Dean Howells.
• So a little abroad and then home, and late at my office and closet settling this day's disordering of my papers, then to supper and to bed. - "Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright", Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke.
• His mode of living might testify that a gnawing remorse abode ever with him, but his hair had not turned white in a single night, as the heads of those suddenly stricken by a great shock or a great grief or any greatly upsetting and disordering emotion sometimes are reputed to turn. - "The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story", Various.