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Past tense of disorder

regular verb

The past tense of disorder is disordered. The past participle is also disordered.

Forms of disorder

Base form (V1)disorder /dɪsˈɔːdə(ɹ)/
Past tense (V2)disordered /dɪsˈɔɹdɚd/
Past participle (V3)disordered /dɪsˈɔɹdɚd/
Present participledisordering
Third person singulardisorders

Disordered in a sentence

  • The largely basic C-terminal disordered segment in L1 subunits is strongly involved in intercapsomeric interaction.2016 February 18, “Evidences of Changes in Surface Electrostatic Charge Distribution during Stabilization of HPV16 Virus-Like Particles”…. From the entry intercapsomeric
  • With this assault they drive back the thin enemy line, pressing forward through the disordered enemy.2011, Sam Koon, “Phalanx and Legion: The ‘Face’ of Punic War Battle”, in Dexter Hoyos, editor, A Companion to the Punic Wars (Blackwell…. From the entry enemy line
  • Rather, only disordered and dangerous military exercises that give rise to slayings and plunderings are forbidden.2005, Michael L. Morgan, Classics of Moral and Political Theory, page 473. From the entry plundering
  • The isolated disordered regions and the amorphous layer have widely different anneal behavior.1970, James W[alter] Mayer, Lennart Eriksson, John A[rthur] Davies, “General Features of Ion Implantation”, in Ion Implantation in…. From the entry silicon
  • Out of sorts means mixed, unclassified, unassorted, having one's functions disordered.1900, Blackwood Ketcham Benson, Who Goes There?. From the entry unassorted

Meaning of disorder

  1. noun Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
  2. noun A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
  3. noun A physical or mental malfunction.

Full definition of disorder

Questions about the past tense of disorder

What is the past tense of disorder?
The past tense of disorder is disordered.
What is the past participle of disorder?
The past participle of disorder is disordered.
Is disorder a regular or irregular verb?
Disorder is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disorder (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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