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Disrupt   Listen
verb
disrupt  v. t.  (past & past part. disrupted; pres. part. disrupting)  
1.
To break asunder; to rend.
2.
To destroy the continuity of, usually temporarily; as, electrical power was disrupted by the hurricane.
3.
To interfere with or halt, especially by causing a lack of order; as, the shouting of the demonstrators disrupted the meeting.





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"Disrupt" Quotes from Famous Books



... course. The principal ground of attack was that the "Fourierites" were "disorganizers," that they were unsettling the foundations of society and that they wished to make their Associations entering wedges to disrupt the marriage relation and produce promiscuity and general anarchy. Their opponents even went so far as to call the leaders infidels, and made other outrageous and absurd charges against them. The New York Express was ...
— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman
... especially upsetting to see patients receive electroshock treatments. These violent, physician-induced traumas did seem to disrupt dysfunctional thought patterns such as an impulse to commit suicide, but afterwards the victim couldn't remember huge parts of their life or even recall who they were. Like many other dangerous medical treatments, electroshock can save life but it can also take life ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon
... of their limitations, disrupt their natural and accustomed mode of life, and then throw the blame back upon them for not evolving a new and better environment, was ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 11 (of 14) - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen • Elbert Hubbard
... "and it's a whopper. I haven't been able to find the names of any of the leaders and I wouldn't know what to do if I did learn who they are. This one thing, rather than anything else, is likely to disrupt the aims ...
— The Boy Allies At Verdun • Clair W. Hayes


Words linked to "Disrupt" :   break in, heckle, disruption, interrupt, chime in, cut off, inject, punctuate, intermit, break up, jam, cut short, put aside, put in, disruptive, throw in, butt in, take off, burst in on, put away, cut in


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