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Disorganizing

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).

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disorganizing

alt. (present participle of disorganize English) vb. (present participle of disorganize English)

Usage examples of "disorganizing".

These techniques can be disorganizing to the family, particularly when the preadolescent applies his sharp mind to their perfection.

Thus it was brought home to an artist for the first time that, when his works embodied a close enough study of nature, they had power not only over the birds of heaven, but over horses and cows as well and were also capable of disorganizing the tranquil rural gait of Lorchen, a human being.

Ordinarily, such a volley of arrows should have struck at least a few of the rowers, disorganizing the beat of the oars until the men hit could be replaced or their oars shipped.

I haven't the slightest idea of its true nature, but it seems to have a powerful affinity for important nerve centers of respiration and muscular coordination, as well as for disorganizing the blood.

There was a strong disorganizing field here that would have disrupted any Thingweight that had survived thus far.

While the executioner was burning the great books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the court-house, writers now forgotten were publishing, with the King's sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were eagerly read by the unfortunate.

We'll start with the grisly assumption that the war will come fast and hard, when it comes, killing forty million or so at once, destroying the major cities, wrecking most of our industry and utterly disorganizing the rest.