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disray

disray is the obsolete form 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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Forms of disray

third-person singular presentdisrays
present participledisraying
past participledisrayed
pastdisrayed

Questions about disray

What is disray the obsolete form of?
Disray is the obsolete form of disarray.

Words near disray in the dictionary

  1. disranks
  2. disrate
  3. disrated
  4. disrates
  5. disrating
  6. disray
  7. disrayed
  8. disraying
  9. disrays
  10. disrealise
  11. disrealised

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