Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put into a state of anarchy or confusion; reduce to anarchy; throw into confusion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To reduce to anarchy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To reduce to a state of
anarchy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Marats, the Dantons, and Robespierres of Massachusetts are in the same pay, under the same orders, and making the same efforts to anarchize us, that their prototypes in France did there.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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The foreigner gained time to anarchize by gold the government he could not overthrow by arms, to crush in their own councils the genuine republicans, by the fraternal embraces of exaggerated and hired pretenders, and to turn the machine of Jacobinism from the change to the destruction of order: and, in the end, the limited monarchy they had secured was exchanged for the unprincipled and bloody tyranny of Robespierre, and the equally unprincipled and maniac tyranny of Bonaparte.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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