disorganize
verb
1 disorganize
Remove the organization from.
synonym: disorganise.
Roget 61:
derange;
disarrange,
misarrange†;
displace,
misplace;
mislay,
discompose,
disorder;
deorganize†,
discombobulate,
disorganize;
embroil,
unsettle,
disturb,
confuse,
trouble,
perturb,
jumble,
tumble;
shuffle,
randomize;
huddle,
muddle,
toss,
hustle,
fumble,
riot;
bring into disorder,
put into disorder,
throw into disorder
etc.
59;
muss [U.S.];
break the ranks,
disconcert,
convulse;
break in upon.
unhinge,
dislocate,
put out of joint,
throw out of gear.
turn topsy-turvy
etc.
(invert)
218;
bedevil;
complicate,
involve,
perplex,
confound;
imbrangle†,
embrangle†,
tangle,
entangle,
ravel,
tousle,
towzle†,
dishevel,
ruffle;
rumple
etc.
(fold)
258.
litter,
scatter;
mix
etc.
41.
rearrange
etc.
148.
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Roget 162:
be destroyed
&c.;
perish;
fall to the ground;
tumble,
topple;
go to pieces,
fall to pieces;
break up;
crumble to dust;
go to the dogs,
go to the wall,
go to smash,
go to shivers,
go to wreck,
go to pot,
go to wrack and ruin;
go by the board,
go all to smash;
be all over,
be all up,
be all with;
totter to its fall.
destroy;
do away with,
make away with;
nullify;
annual
etc.
756;
sacrifice,
demolish;
tear up;
overturn,
overthrow,
overwhelm;
upset,
subvert,
put an end to;
seal the doom of,
do in,
do for,
dish [Slang],
undo;
break up,
cut up;
break down,
cut down,
pull down,
mow down,
blow down,
beat down;
suppress,
quash,
put down,
do a job on;
cut short,
take off,
blot out;
dispel,
dissipate,
dissolve;
consume.
smash,
crash,
quell,
squash,
squelch,
crumple up,
shatter,
shiver;
batter to pieces,
tear to pieces,
crush to pieces,
cut to pieces,
shake to pieces,
pull to pieces,
pick to pieces;
laniate†;
nip;
tear to rags,
tear to tatters;
crush to atoms,
knock to atoms;
ruin;
strike out;
throw over,
knock down over;
fell,
sink,
swamp,
scuttle,
wreck,
shipwreck,
engulf,
ingulf†,
submerge;
lay in ashes,
lay in ruins;
sweep away,
erase,
wipe out,
expunge,
raze;
level with the dust,
level with the ground;
waste;
atomize,
vaporize.
deal destruction,
desolate,
devastate,
lay waste,
ravage gut;
disorganize;
dismantle
etc.
(render useless)
645;
devour,
swallow up,
sap,
mine,
blast,
bomb,
blow to smithereens,
drop the big one,
confound;
exterminate,
extinguish,
quench,
annihilate;
snuff out,
put out,
stamp out,
trample out;
lay in the dust,
trample in the dust;
prostrate;
tread under foot;
crush under foot,
trample under foot;
lay the ax to the root of;
make short work of,
make clean sweep of,
make mincemeat of;
cut up root and branch,
chop into pieces,
cut into ribbons;
fling to the winds,
scatter to the winds;
throw overboard;
strike at the root of,
sap the foundations of,
spring a mine,
blow up,
ravage with fire and sword;
cast to the dogs;
eradicate
etc.
301.
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adjective
Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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