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disarraying

disarraying is the present participle and gerund of disarray.

Meaning of disarray

Verb

disarray (third-person singular simple present disarrays, present participle disarraying, simple past and past participle disarrayed)

  1. (transitive) To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
    • Who with fiery steeds / Oft disarray'd the foes in battle ranged.1726, Elijah Fenton, Odyssey
  2. (transitive) To take off the dress of; to unrobe.
    • So as she bad, that witch they disaraid1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46

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Questions about disarraying

What is disarraying the present participle and gerund of?
Disarraying is the present participle and gerund of disarray.

Words near disarraying in the dictionary

  1. disarrangers
  2. disarranges
  3. disarranging
  4. disarray
  5. disarrayed
  6. disarraying
  7. disarrayment
  8. disarrays
  9. disarrest
  10. disarticulate
  11. disarticulated

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