rearrange

verb

re·​ar·​range ˌrē-ə-ˈrānj 

rearranged; rearranging

transitive verb

: to arrange (something or someone) again in a different way

rearranged the flowers on the table

rearrange the furniture

I rearranged my hair/clothes/glasses.

… anagrams, which are words or phrases rearranged to form different words or phrases.

—Carolyn Phelan

… massaging his knees while he talks, frequently rearranging himself into a more comfortable position.

—Daniel Ross

Sarah is more or less grimacing now …. In a minute, she'll rearrange her face to look cheerful.

—Aurelie Sheehan

… rearranging their lives … to go back to school, to get the education that was denied them or that they did not want when they were young.

—Ruth Dorgan

… thousands of people had to cancel or rearrange their travel plans.

—Ken Young

Examples of rearrange in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The 4,100-square-foot Uptown Boutique store, which is next door to Rustic Interiors, is being rearranged so that the home goods merchandise will be blended with the women’s and men’s clothing and accessories. —Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Aug. 2025

Fiction itself is utopian, too, a space where the unjust logic of inheritance and privilege can be questioned, rearranged or reversed. —Nell Stevens august 4, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025

Then there is the idea of modular robots: reconfigurable machines that can change their architecture by rearranging collections of basic modules. —Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 27 July 2025

On the inside, the tech components have been rearranged, allowing for a frame that is 11% thinner than the last generation. —PC Magazine, 10 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1778, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for rearrange

• interchange
• arrange
• derange
• estrange
• exchange
• midrange
• change
• grange
• mange
• range
• strange

Kids Definition

rearrange

verb

re·​ar·​range

ˌrē-ə-ˈrānj

: to arrange again usually in a different way

rearranged the furniture

rearrangement noun