Dis*or"gan*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disorganized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Disorganizing (?).] [Pref. dis- + organize: cf. F. d'esorganiser.]

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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