Disrupt
[dɪs'rʌpt]
Definition
(verb.) throw into disorder; 'This event disrupted the orderly process'.
Typed by Konrad--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
(v. t.) To break asunder; to rend.
Editor: Sweeney
Definition
v.t. to burst asunder to break up.—n. Disrup′tion the act of breaking asunder: the act of bursting and rending: breach: in Scottish ecclesiastical history the separation of the party who became the Free Church from the Established Church for the sake of spiritual independence (1843).—adj. Disrup′tive causing or accompanied by disruption.
Typist: Sol
Examples
- The end of the eighteenth century was a period of disrupting empires and disillusioned expansionists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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