Disorganizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disorganize \Dis*or"gan*ize\, v. t. [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.


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           Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church.
                                                    --Eliot
                                                    (1809).
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