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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or unity of.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of the parts of; throw into confusion or disorder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To make less organized; to reduce to chaos.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb remove the organization from

Etymologies

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From French désorganiser

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