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misarrange

misarrange verb: to incorrectly arrange.

Verb

misarrange (third-person singular simple present misarranges, present participle misarranging, simple past and past participle misarranged)

  1. To incorrectly arrange
    • which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and...

Forms of misarrange

third-person singular presentmisarranges
present participlemisarranging
past participlemisarranged
pastmisarranged

Origin of misarrange

From mis- + arrange.

Questions about misarrange

What does misarrange mean?
Misarrange means to incorrectly arrange.
What part of speech is misarrange?
Misarrange is a verb.
What is the past tense of misarrange?
The past tense of misarrange is misarranged.

Words near misarrange in the dictionary

  1. misarchist
  2. misarchists
  3. misarchy
  4. misargument
  5. misarguments
  6. misarrange
  7. misarranged
  8. misarrangement
  9. misarrangements
  10. misarranges
  11. misarranging

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