disorganize
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Origin: among typesetters, from the verb "pi" meaning to disorganize hopelessly, as a "pied" line of type: cmfw shrdl cmfwy vbgkq etao ET The original "pied" Piper was so-called from his motley costume.
From Time Magazine Archive
If passed, the amendment "will further impede and disorganize the defense program," will also stop normal industrial expansion.
From Time Magazine Archive
He warned that such sale would "disorganize the Government and other security markets."
From Time Magazine Archive
The verdict, the first against the Mafia as a criminal enterprise, was the most damaging blow to La Cosa Nostra struck by the Justice Department in its highly successful crusade to disorganize organized crime.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, basically, a response to propaganda, something like the panic-producing pheromones that slave-taking ants re lease to disorganize the colonies of their prey.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Blanchard recommends expanding the export controls from defense-related production to “anything which disorganizes production” in the Russian economy.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2022
“Not only does the current protocol fail to protect students, staff and their families, but it also completely disorganizes schools.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
For the Communists to practice drastic reform as they made war was relatively easy, for in partisan warfare anything that disorganizes society operates to the enemy's disadvantage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The congestion, or overfilling with blood, causes pressure on the brain substance and disorganizes its function.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
But a long opposition influences and disorganizes the judgment, forms not those genuine statesmen able to grasp great events.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count
“It’s majorly disorganized, which is weird for our country,” McFarlane added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026
However, many who were active in the effort to stop Mamdani’s election, which ultimately turned out to be a disorganized failure, took that as a sign that defeat was imminent.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
She hurried back as the fires broke containment, but her absence, which her social media posts seemed to obscure, became the symbol of a disorganized response to the disaster.
From Slate ● Jun. 3, 2026
In real patients, drugs are delivered through the bloodstream, and tumor blood vessels are often disorganized, which may further contribute to uneven drug distribution.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
About ten quiet, painful minutes later, we pulled into my driveway—in her car, of course, because I was still too lazy and disorganized and pathetic to get my license.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
This double-sax quartet pays homage to Charlie Parker by cutting up, slowing down and disorganizing his compositions.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
One progress report notes that she “seemed to contribute a somewhat disorganizing influence to the class.”
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2015
Many of the assembled diplomats were forcibly reminded of Castro's disorganizing power back in their home territories.
From Time Magazine Archive
"If we cannot stop the trend, we should at least take steps to decrease the disorganizing effects."
From Time Magazine Archive
There is the synthetical reaction in the cell, and the analytical or splitting reaction—the organizing, and the disorganizing processes—what keeps up this seesaw and preserves the equilibrium?
From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John
