Meaning

Alternative form of rearrange..

Example Sentences

With such matters to ponder over, and arrange, and re-arrange, Edmund could not on his own account think very much of the evening, which the rest of the family were looking forward to with a more equal degree of strong interest.

Now, if in a stage coach in the depth of winter, when three passengers are warm and snug, a fourth, all besnowed and frozen, descends from the outside and takes place amongst them, straightway all the three passengers shift their places, uneasily pull up their cloak collars, re-arrange their "comforters," feel indignantly a sensible loss of caloric—the intruder has at least made a sensation.

He went back to his play like an opium-smoker back to his drug. He revised and re-arranged and revamped. He closed his eyes, valiantly, and cut away whole act-ends, at one grim stroke, like a surgeon operating on his own flesh and blood.

The shuffle() function uses PHP's random number generator to re-arrange the elements of an array randomly.

Re-Arranging the Furniture

Word Forms

• re-arranges
• re-arranging
• re-arranged

When Should You Use Re-arrange?

Use re-arrange when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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