disarrayformal
Their comfortable, sedate life was thrown into disarray by the arrival of the puppy.
If numbers of these predators continue to fall, the natural balance of the wildlife reserve will be thrown into disarray.
The collapse of the investment fund threw the personal finances of thousands of people into disarray.
He worried that an earthquake would throw his neat stacks of books and papers into disarray.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
addled
all of a doodahidiom
all over the placeidiom
alphabet soup
at seaidiom
disarray
discombobulation
disordered
disorganization
disorganized
muddle
muddle something up
muddle-headed
muddled
mush
unaccountable
unaccountably
unexplainable
unexplained
unsearchable

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