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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disorganize \Dis*or"gan*ize\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Disorganized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disorganizing}.] [Pref. dis- + organize: cf. F. d['e]sorganiser.] 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).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disorganized
adjective: lacking order or methodical arrangement or function; "a disorganized enterprise"; "a thousand pages of muddy and disorganized prose"; "she was too disorganized to be an agreeable roommate" [syn: {disorganised}] [ant: {organized}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "disorganized": amiss, anarchial, anarchic, anarchistic, antinomian, askew, awry, balled-up, bothered, chaotic, cockeyed, confused, convulsed, deranged, disarranged, discomfited, discomposed, disconcerted, dislocated, disordered, disorderly, disturbed, embarrassed, flustered, fluttered, fussed, haywire, in a jumble, in a pother, in a pucker, in a stew, in a sweat, in a swivet, in a tizzy, in disorder, jumbled, misplaced, mixed-up, nihilistic, on the fritz, out of gear, out of joint, out of kelter, out of kilter, out of order, out of place, out of tune, out of whack, perplexed, perturbed, put-out, rattled, roily, ruffled, shaken, shook, shuffled, syndicalistic, turbid, turbulent, unruly, unsettled, upset
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