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Disrupt   /dɪsrˈəpt/   Listen
Disrupt

verb
(past & past part. disrupted; pres. part. disrupting)
1.
Make a break in.  Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt.
2.
Throw into disorder.
3.
Interfere in someone else's activity.  Synonym: interrupt.



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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



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