rearrange

Verb

Meaning

To arrange again; to arrange in a different way.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

reshuffle riffle convert change move rummage shamble correct improve shift switch reverse schedule alter modify
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Antonyms

allow remain continue damage break block
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Hypernyms

arrange set up

Hyponyms

reshuffle recode

Phrases with the word

rearrange someone's face rearrange mentally rearrange to rearrange someone's guts

Examples

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. Truman Capote

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (1954), p. 75. Eric Hoffer

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them. Arthur Koestler

But we all do sort of the same thing and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and, uh, they remind you of the beauty of very simple things. You forget, because you're so busy going from A to Z, that there's, uh, 24 letters in between. Grace Slick

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. Ronald Reagan

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. Raymond Carver

Close letter words and terms

rearouse rearraign rearraignment rearrange mentally rearrange someone's face rearrange someone's guts