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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

... He helped to disrupt the society. The confessions of scores of its former members were poured into his burning ears. In his unique book of his life in Tahiti, he described their dramas, pantomimes, and dances, their religious rituals ...

— Mystic Isles of the South Seas. • Frederick O'Brien

... husband; and this is even true to-day in modern England, unless the adultery of the husband be accompanied by other flagrant violations of morality. Conduct on the part of the husband, which the wife overlooked, therefore, a generation ago, is to-day sufficient to disrupt the family bonds and become a ground for the granting of a divorce. Even if vice, then, has not increased in our population, if moral practices are no higher to-day than fifty years ago, we should expect that this alone would have far different consequences now than then. The growth of ...

— Sociology and Modern Social Problems • Charles A. Ellwood

... even that she had had a letter from Val, for he had written two days ago, and so she would not hear again for several days, a ready pen not being his. And she was beginning to be guiltily conscious that she did not enjoy getting his letters; they seemed somehow to disrupt atmosphere instead of creating it. Everything was different from that day on the river when Val had told her he loved her and it had all seemed so simple. She had accepted him then because she was so fond of him, and she knew everyone would be pleased, ...

— Secret Bread • F. Tennyson Jesse