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disorganize - 4 dictionary results

dis⋅or⋅gan⋅ize

[dis-awr-guh-nahyz]
–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz⋅ing.
to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
Also, especially British, dis⋅or⋅gan⋅ise.


Origin:
1785–95; < F désorganiser, equiv. to dés- dis- 1 + organiser to organize


dis⋅or⋅gan⋅iz⋅er, noun
dis·or·gan·ize   (dĭs-ôr'gə-nīz')   
tr.v.   dis·or·gan·ized, dis·or·gan·iz·ing, dis·or·gan·iz·es
To destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or unity of.
dis·or'gan·i·za'tion (-gə-nĭ-zā'shən) n.

Disorganize

Dis*or"gan*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disorganized; p. pr. & vb. n. Disorganizing.] [Pref. dis- + organize: cf. F. d['e]sorganiser.] To destroy the organic structure or regular system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange.

Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. --Eliot (1809).

disorganize 
1793, from Fr. désorganiser, from dés- "not" + organiser "organize." This word and related forms introduced in Eng. in reference to the Fr. Revolution.
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