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Past tense of disarray

regular verb

The past tense of disarray is disarrayed. The past participle is also disarrayed.

Forms of disarray

Base form (V1)disarray /dɪsəˈɹeɪ/
Past tense (V2)disarrayed
Past participle (V3)disarrayed
Present participledisarraying
Third person singulardisarrays

Disarrayed in a sentence

  • "And my hair is all atangle," Sara said, running her fingers through her disarrayed locks and praying time would heal the child's wounded soul.1997, Lois Greiman, The Lady and the Knight. From the entry disarrayed

Meaning of disarray

  1. verb To throw into disorder; to break the array of.
  2. verb To take off the dress of; to unrobe.
  3. noun A lack of array or regular order; disorder; confusion.

Full definition of disarray

Questions about the past tense of disarray

What is the past tense of disarray?
The past tense of disarray is disarrayed.
What is the past participle of disarray?
The past participle of disarray is disarrayed.
Is disarray a regular or irregular verb?
Disarray is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disarray (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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