DISORGANIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disorganize mean? 

• DISORGANIZE (verb)
  The verb DISORGANIZE has 1 sense:

1. remove the organization from

  Familiarity information: DISORGANIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISORGANIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disorganize    ... he / she / it disorganizes   
Past simple: disorganized   
Past participle: disorganized   
-ing form: disorganizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the organization from

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

disorganise; disorganize

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

organize (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)

Derivation:

disorganization (the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion)

disorganization (a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted)

 Context examples 

A benign and excessive tumor-like growth of mature cells and normal tissues which grow in a disorganized pattern.

(Hamartoma, NCI Thesaurus)

This can be seen in the tangled features above and below the plane, where the local magnetic field is particularly disorganized.

(Planck Takes Magnetic Fingerprint of Our Galaxy, JPL/NASA)

A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, and a flat or inappropriate affect; associated features include grimacing, mannerisms, and other oddities of behavior.

(Disorganized Type Schizophrenia, NCI Thesaurus)

Microscopically, it is characterized by disorganized areas, which are called cores, seen usually in the center of the muscle fibers.

(Central Core Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or grossly disorganized behavior that resolve within a month.

(Brief Psychotic Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

It results in disorganized growth of retinal blood vessels, which may lead to scarring and retinal detachment.

(Immature Retinopathy of Prematurity, NICHD)

A type of schizophrenia characterized by frequent incoherence; marked loosening of associations, or grossly disorganized behavior and flat or grossly inappropriate affect that does not meet the criteria for the catatonic type; associated features include extreme social withdrawal, grimacing, mannerisms, mirror gazing, inappropriate giggling, and other odd behavior.

(Disorganized Type Schizophrenia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)