disarrayed; disarraying; disarrays
1
: to throw into disorder
The discarded magazines and newspapers, the layers of dust and disarrayed rugs …—
Gloria Naylor
Gloria Naylor2
: undress
Examples of disarray in a Sentence
Noun
The room was in disarray.
The company has fallen into complete disarray.
Verb
he had accidentally disarrayed his brother's CDs, leaving a telltale sign of borrowing without permission
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Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
The slow and steady pace of these trade tools also affords the private sector time to prepare and adjust rather than throw their supply chains into disarray overnight.
—Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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Noun
For months now, possibly because the film and television industries spent 2024 in disarray, New York theatre has been a kind of buffet of mostly male A-listers playing limited theatrical runs.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
The slow and steady pace of these trade tools also affords the private sector time to prepare and adjust rather than throw their supply chains into disarray overnight.
—Emily Kilcrease, Foreign Affairs, 9 June 2025
Verb
The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
The film’s most trenchant scenes involve Gere in states of repose or regret or nostalgia, especially when psychically disarrayed in a chair with a camera facing toward him, wondering what, for example, desire smells like.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Disarray.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disarray. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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disarray
1 of 2 noun
dis·ar·ray
ˌdis-ə-ˈrā 
disarray
2 of 2 verb
: to throw into disorder
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