Word Finder - disorder

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Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.

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After playing the children left the room in disorder.

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A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.

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The army tried to prevent disorder when claims the elections had been rigged grew stronger.

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A physical or mental malfunction.

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Bulimia is an eating disorder.

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To throw into a state of disorder.

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To knock out of order or sequence.

The tiny bit of disorder helped her relax.

But before starting he was called upon to suppress disorder at home.

The disorder of Rebecca's bedroom made her mother very upset.

But the whole mass of bones is in hopeless disorder, apparently without any record of association.

In Rome the popes authority weakened day by day, and disorder increased.

After the wild storm, the whole town was in a state of disorder.

I need to spend some time fixing the disorder of my bookshelves.

To avoid disorder in her classroom, Mrs. Johnson set strict rules on cleaning up after free time.

The early stages of a mental disorder were beginning to show in the patient.

The current disorder of the kitchen needs to be fixed before we have guests over.

The finances fell into disorder.

All of the symptoms hinted towards the disorder, making the doctor feel more confident in his diagnosis.

A scene of riot and disorder was enacted in the Venezuelan capital.

He stared at the flowers, a sign of disorder in his otherwise sterile condo.

The disorder in Germany after the fall of the Hohenstaufen afforded an opportunity for Rudolph to increase his possessions.

The internet said that a coma was basically a sleep disorder.

When horizontal trees have fallen into disorder, the branches may be cut back to within 9 in.

Bela resolutely put down all disorder.

At the same time the cabinet, as a whole, brought in a Clerical Abuses Bill, threatening with severe punishment priests guilty of disturbing the peace of families, of opposing the laws of the state, or of fomenting disorder.

The French, with more recklessness than was usual with them in later times, bore down on their enemy courageously but in some disorder.

But the suppression of disorder did not relieve the tension between the congress and the executive.

Control over many of the outlying districts was lost, and the elements of disorder on the British frontier were a standing menace to the peace of the country.

I think I have a commitment disorder or something.

He claimed to be recognized as guardian of his young son Philip and as regent of the Netherlands, but some of the states refused to agree to his demands and disorder was general.

Sokolli's assassination, on the rrth of October 1578, had meanwhile thrown the country into disorder.

From 1631 to 1702 the office of Bey was hereditary in the descendants of Mural, a Corsican renegade, and their rivalry with the Deys and internal dissensions kept the country in constant disorder.

His rule was a period of struggle emperor and disorder, owing partly to the feebleness of his own Frederick character, partly to the wish of his brother, Albert, to Popular revolt under Ulrich Eiczing and Count Ulrich of Cilli.

Into this chaos enter from time to time broad rays of sunshine, the efforts of a few enlightened monarchs to evolve order from disorder, and to supply to their people the blessings of peace and civilization.

I have always felt isolated with my blood disorder.

His death was followed by scenes of wild disorder, and Cesare, being himself ill, could not attend to business, but sent Don Michelotto, his chief bravo, to seize the pope's treasures before the demise was publicly announced.

Sigismond of Hungary profited by the disorder that of ensued to regain Croatia and Dalmatia; and in 1398 Bosnian the Turks, aided by renegade Sla y s, 2 overran Bosnia.

But the disorder in the army and the administration continued, and the advance of the Austrians and the Venetians met with little opposition.

Some also offer support to vitiligo sufferers and their families, as well as providing information about the disorder.

They were important because they could maintain the impotence of the crown to check disorder by imposing conditions upon candidates for the throne, and by taking care that no prince powerful enough to be dangerous to themselves should be elected to this position.

In the early years of the reign the people, especially in the south and west, attacked and plundered the Jews; and the consequent disorder was greatly increased by the ravages of the Black Death and by the practices and preaching of the Flagellants, both events serving to spur the maddened populace to renewed outrages on the Jews.

Wenceslaus favored first one of the antagonists and then the other, but although he showed some desire to put an end to the increasing amount of disorder he was unable, or unwilling, to take a stronn and definite line of action.

Spreading their advanced religious views, these settlers were partly responsible for two serious outbreaks of disorder, At Aix-laChapelle the Protestants, not being allowed freedom of worship, took possession of the city in 1581.

The Nationalists refused to allow Lueger to speak, clapping their desks, hissing and making other noises, till at last the Young Czechs attempted to prevent the disorder by violence.

They were able for the first time to procure the election of one of their party in the Austrian Delegation, and threatened to introduce into the Assembly scenes of disorder similar to those which they had made common in the Reichsrath.

The land was full of disorder, and the praetors shrank from enforcing the law against offenders, many of whom, as Roman knights, might be their own judges.

Eight years more of disorder followed; in 1220 the emperor-king came back.

The 7th Ilkhan, Ghazan Mahmud, took advantage of the disorder in the Mameluke empire to invade Syria in the latter half of 1299, when his forces inflicted a severe defeat on those of the new sultan, and seized several cities, including the capital Damascus, of which, however, they were unable to storm the citadel; in 1300, when a fresh army was collected in Egypt, the Mongols evacuated Damascus and made no attempt to secure their other conquests.

The constant changes of sultan led to great disorder in the provinces, and many of the subject principalities endeavoured to shake off the Egyptian yoke.

The British army of occupation was Sir Evelyns kurbash; it was well within his reach, as all the world knew, and its simple presence sufficed to prevent disorder and enforce obedience.

The strike of miners in the Pas de Calais after the disaster at Courrieres, leading to the threat of disorder on the 1st of May 1906, obliged him to employ the military; and his attitude in the matter alienated the Socialist party, from which he definitely broke in his notable reply in the Chamber to Jean Jaures in June 1906.

He was engaged with Rosellini in publishing the results of Egyptian researches at the expense of the Tuscan and French governments, when he was seized with a paralytic disorder, and died at Paris in 1832.

Indeed the king's horror of Jacobinism was morbid in its intensity, and drove him to adopt all sorts of reactionary measures and to postpone his coronation for some years, so as to avoid calling together a diet; but the disorder of the finances, caused partly by the continental war and partly by the almost total failure of the crops in 1798 and 1799, compelled him to summon the estates to Norrkoping in March 1800, and on the 3rd of April Gustavus was crowned.

Onias had proceeded to Antioch to explain the disorder and bloodshed due to Jason's followers, and so Jason, high priest of the Jews by grace of Antiochus, had his way.

All these circumstances combined to render the new regime weak and unpopular, since there was no force at the ruler's command except foreign troops to put down disorder or to protect those who submitted, while the discontented nobles fomented disaffection and the inbred hatred of strangers in race and religion among the general Afghan population.

Abdur Rahman executed or exiled all those whose political influence he saw reason to fear, or of whose disaffection he had the slightest suspicion; his administration was severe and his punishments were cruel; but undoubtedly he put down disorder, stopped the petty tyranny of local chiefs and brought violent crime under some effective control in the districts.