misarrange

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verb

To incorrectly arrange

Scrabble 13

Meanings

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

present singular third person misarranges · participle present misarranging · participle past misarranged · past misarranged

  1. To incorrectly arrange

    which often became ridiculous from his misarranging the triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences

    1815 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 Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 42

Origin

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Chicago

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