Hypertext Webster Gateway: "disordered"

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) 1.7 (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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