disorganize

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He warned that such sale would "disorganize the Government and other security markets."

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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.

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In the 1913 testimony Mitchell opposed a separate Air Service, and condemned disgruntled officers for making statements which might disorganize the service.

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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.

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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