disharmonize

verb

Definition of disharmonizenext
as in to disrupt

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disharmonize
  1. disrupt
  2. upset
  3. disarray
  4. skew
  5. disturb
  6. disorganize
  7. disorder
  8. confuse
Verb
  • Harris supporters called Trump a threat to democracy for his refusal to concede his 2020 loss to Biden, unfounded election fraud claims and his supporters’ Capitol riot to disrupt Biden’s presidential certification.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Having studied the chaotic aftermath of the 2020 election, both were now eying plans to disrupt each of the procedural steps between Election Day and the Inauguration, such as the December 11th deadline for each state to ascertain a winner, and the December 17th meeting of each state’s electors.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of disrupt
Verb
  • The suspect, a 62-year-old man identified only by his surname, Fan, was said to be upset by the division of property after his divorce.
    Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • But a poll by the University of Southern California and California State University taken in September showed that most District 12 others remained undecided, which Tran seized as giving her a chance to upset Simon come election day.
    Chase Hunter, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of upset
Verb
  • Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds.
    Yasmine Salam, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Hybrid data is here to stay, so don’t let data disarray slow innovation or undermine smart business decision making.
    Ram Venkatesh, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
Definition of disarray
Verb
  • Magda Teter Jewish Middlemen, Archival Myopia The story of two Jewish trading families during the last decades of the Regency of Algiers is skewed by being told through the perspectives of only European and American actors.
    Erin Maglaque, The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Meghan and later Harry did, however, back campaigns calling for Americans to go out and vote alongside statements that appeared to skew towards evicting Trump from the White House.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
Definition of skew
Verb
  • On May 25, President Trump issued a tweet: North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Genre: Horror Any film whose primary objective is to spook, scare, or disturb its audience.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of disturb
Verb
  • Unfortunately, the movie is a fiasco from the start, confused, disorganized, and often nonsensical; this one just appears to have gotten away from Ponsoldt.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
  • The downside is that the caddy may be disorganized.
    BestReviews, The Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2024
Definition of disorganize
Verb
  • Climate change is so far advanced that its effects will disorder society for generations to come.
    Richard Sennett, Foreign Affairs, 30 Oct. 2020
  • On a molecular level, sarcomeres—proteins that aid contraction—were shorter and disordered after space exposure, and cells’ mitochondria, responsible for energy production, had become deformed.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2024
Definition of disorder
Verb
  • While the technical side of blockchain may still confuse most people, the concept of digital currency is mainstream.
    Lisa Loud, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • All these bases on balls confused fans back in Los Angeles; nobody walks in L.A.
    Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of confuse
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