Disrupt
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English
Verb
Disrupt (third-person singular simple present Disrupts, present participle Disrupting, simple past and past participle Disrupted)
- (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
- Hecklers disrupted the man's speech.
- (transitive) To interrupt or impede.
- Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike.
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agitate, atomize, baffle, balk, blast, brave, breach, break in, break into, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, confound, confront, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crash, cross, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, dash, defeat, defy, demolish, destroy, diffuse, disarray, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disorder, disorganize, disperse, disturb, elude, fission, flummox, foil, fragment, frustrate, grind, hole, interfere with, interrupt, knock the chocks, make mincemeat of, mess up, mince, muddle, nonplus, open, perplex, pulverize, ruin, rummage, rupture, sabotage, scatter, scotch, shake up, shatter, shiver, smash, smash up, spike, splinter, spoil, squash, squish, stonewall, stump, thwart, unsettle, upset
Etymology
From Latin disruptus < disrumpere, commonly dirumpere (“to break or burst asunder”) < dis-, di- (“apart, asunder”) + rumpere (“to break”).
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External links
- Disrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Disrupt in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- Disrupt at OneLook Dictionary Search
