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/dɪsrˈəpt/ Listen

verb

disrupt v. t. (past & past part. disrupted; pres. part. disrupting)

To break asunder; to rend.

To destroy the continuity of, usually temporarily; as, electrical power was disrupted by the hurricane.

To interfere with or halt, especially by causing a lack of order; as, the shouting of the demonstrators disrupted the meeting.

adjective

Disrupt adj. Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

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Etymology of 'Disrupt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disrupt" Quotes from Famous Books

... in the shadows like a cunning old spider in hiding waiting for the unwary fly for which he had wove his web. His life had been that of the iconoclast who creates nothing to adorn the world's great gallery of gods. But he was not philosophical enough to evolve an idea that would disrupt existing beliefs. ...

— Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew • Robert McReynolds

... hamper its ability to create a stable economic environment. In addition, Pakistan's infrastructure is inadequate and deteriorating, low levels of literacy constrain industrial growth, and increasing sectarian, ethnic, and tribal violence disrupt production. ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... chance to decide one way or the other; and men called him a fool. He had promoted elephant fights which had stirred the Indian princes out of their melancholy indifference, and tiger hunts which had, by their duration and magnificence, threatened to disrupt the efficiency of the British military service,—whimsical excesses, not understandable by his intimate acquaintances who cynically arraigned him as the fool and ...

— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath

... United States would be guilty of a great wrong if it should unconditionally surrender its power to the men who demanded admission to peaceful control of the National only because they had failed to disrupt it by war. Mr. Raymond's personal friends and admirers, who were not confined to any one party, were amazed at the recklessness of his position. He did violence to sound logic by claiming more than was necessary to his argument, and he ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... of sex and family life. Indeed, the Freudian concept of the libido may be translated for sociological purposes into the desire for response. The intensity of the sentiments of love and hate that cement and disrupt the family is indicated in the analyses of the so-called "family romance." Life histories reveal the natural tendencies toward reciprocal affection of mother and son or father and daughter, and the mutual antagonism of father and son ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

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