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DISORGANISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disorganise mean?
• DISORGANISE (verb)
The verb DISORGANISE has 1 sense:
1. remove the organization from
Familiarity information: DISORGANISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Conjugation: |
Past simple: disorganised
Past participle: disorganised
-ing form: disorganising
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:
organise (cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea)
Derivation:
disorganisation (the disturbance of a systematic arrangement causing disorder and confusion)
disorganisation (a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted)
Context examples
The place is disorganised.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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