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Disrupt

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.

v. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of: Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.

v. To break or burst; rupture.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To throw into confusion or disorder.

v. To interrupt or impede.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

v. To break asunder; to rend.

v. to destroy the continuity of, usually temporarily.

v. To interfere with or halt, especially by causing a lack of order.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To break or burst asunder; separate forcibly.

Torn from or asunder; severed by rending or breaking.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. make a break in

v. throw into disorder

v. interfere in someone else's activity

Word Usage

"But they decided to go ahead and what we call disrupt it in place."

Verb Form

disrupted disrupting disrupts

Form

disrupted disrupting

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

severed disrupted rend break burst

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

abrupt corrupt erupt interrupt upped

Same Context

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