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
"The enemy loosed his attacks on the central front to disorganize the moves of German reserves."
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
He warned that such sale would "disorganize the Government and other security markets."
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
It is purely an unnatural sensation, that temporarily disorganizes the nervous system.
From The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island by Finlay, Roger Thompson
That is the sort of kindness which disorganizes society.
From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
“It’s majorly disorganized, which is weird for our country,” McFarlane added.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 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
“Kelly” was never completed; Swanson stopped the shoot mid-production, so disorganized was this prince-and-peasant project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
Gorka’s long-awaited strategy, Clarke and Ware said in an op-ed, could help clarify White House thinking on how to handle threats when “defenses are divided, disorganized and under-resourced.”
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
Our senses disorganized, our frames trembling with cold, we calculated as best we could the direction of our town and made our way across that countryside of dream.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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
The Lancers were forced back, disorganizing the 3rd Ghoorkhas, who composed the left battalion of the line.
From Through Three Campaigns A Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti by Paget, Walter
