disorganize
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It might disorganize Red China's industries and communications, notably coastal shipping.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
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"Hostile forces are trying to create new centers of anarchy, disturb the rhythm of normal work in factories and disorganize the life of the country."
From Time Magazine Archive
He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia."
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
When a thunderstorm disorganizes our electric lights for an hour or so we feel it a personal affront.
From Mince Pie by Christopher Morley
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
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 contrast, basal subtype tumors are more disorganized and aggressive, and they are often resistant to chemotherapy.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 2026
Even with the deletions and changes, the report delivered a harsh critique of the LAFD’s performance during the Palisades fire, pointing to a disorganized response, failures in communication and chiefs who didn’t understand their roles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
Diego’s bathroom was messier and more disorganized than his bedroom.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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
In some cases, uncompromising campus militants seem more interested in disorganizing college administrations than in reorganizing curriculums.
From Time Magazine Archive
West of Kiev, mobile Soviet columns spread out for 45 miles like the tentacles of a huge octopus, seizing vast booty, disorganizing German resistance.
From Time Magazine Archive
That such organisms are the essential and direct causes of enthetic maladies by invading the human and other living bodies as parasites, consuming and disorganizing their tissues, blood corpuscles,20 etc.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
