disorganize
verb (used with object)
to destroy the organization, systematic arrangement, or orderly connection of; throw into confusion or disorder.
had disorganized
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past perfectof disorganize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Premier Otto Grotewohl publicly admitted that "temporary difficulties" had disorganized the supply of butter, margarine, sugar and meat.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scope of the war had disorganized the life and practices of the whole world, had overthrown all precedents, shattered all fundamental relations.
From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman) Kellogg
The contractor quit his job because the war had disorganized labor and the situation was simply helpless.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith
He reflected that on the preceding day the excitement and activity following upon the discovery of the corpse had disorganized his appetite and led to his taking considerably less nourishment than usual.
From The Woman in Black by E. C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
But his intervention had disorganized the Russian campaign in Galicia and Russian armies there had been compelled to retreat and send reenforcements north.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
