disarranges

Throws into disorder

Disarranges means to disturb the order or arrangement of something: The wind disarranged her carefully styled hair.

It suggests undoing what was previously organized or neat—papers on a desk, furniture in a room, plans that were set.

The word implies disorder introduced to something that had been orderly.

disrupts

upsets

Disturbs or overturns

displaces · disorganizes · disorders · confuses · muddles · shuffles · scatters · misplaces · deranges · discomposes

dishevels

rumples

Creates disorderly folds

ruffles · messes up · wrinkles · crumples · disorders · frazzles · windswept · tumbles

clutters

jumbles

Mixes into confusion

heaps · piles · scatters · dumps · disarrays · messes · tosses around · spreads · disperses

tangles

knots

Secured loops in rope

mats · ravels · intertwines · ensnares · webs · meshes · coils · interlaces

Opposites
order vs. disorder

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Puts into order

organizes · orders · tidies · straightens · arrays

Family

disarrange, disarranged, disarrangement, disarranging

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G