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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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