disorganize
Americanverb (used with object)
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disorganizes,
present (3rd person singular)
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disorganized,
past participle, past
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disorganizing
present participle
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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disorganizesimple
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disorganizessimple
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have disorganizedperfect
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has disorganizedperfect
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am disorganizingprogressive
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are disorganizingprogressive
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is disorganizingprogressive
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have been disorganizingperfect progressive
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has been disorganizingperfect progressive
Past
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disorganizedsimple
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had disorganizedperfect
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was disorganizingprogressive
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were disorganizingprogressive
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had been disorganizingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of disorganize
1785–95; < French désorganiser, equivalent to dés- dis- 1 + organiser to organize
Example Sentences
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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.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
He warned that such sale would "disorganize the Government and other security markets."
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
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 disorganizes and breaks down the tissues of the root here, providing a space for a thicker growth of the mycelium as it becomes older.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson
She dared not breathe her doubts; but, like a subtle poison which disorganizes everything with which it comes in contact, this new suspicion filled her thoughts, and added to her already intolerable sufferings.
From File No. 113 by Émile Gaboriau
“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
Leo’s 42,000-word encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” intermixes them in the way Catholic social teaching has often done, and in a similarly unclear and disorganized way.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 2026
These included a record player positioned on a table next to the bed for optimal roll-over needle drops and a disorganized assortment of motorcycle magazines and ’50s and ’60s 7” singles scattered across the floor.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2026
He stays in his apartment, which is no longer neat and empty but is filling up with disorganized parts of his life: take-out Chinese food containers, unwashed sheets.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
Employed in the six-man dance band which his father led as a weekend hobby, twelve-year-old Ralph soon began disorganizing the outfit with Waller-style chords and riffs plus a smattering of local St. Louis ragtime.
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 greater power and range of human activities has also made war disproportionately destructive and disorganizing, and, even as a clumsy way of settling issues between government and government and people and people, ineffective.
From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
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