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disrupt
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb disrupt has 3 senses
- disrupt(v = verb.communication) break up, cut off, interrupt - make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" is one way to break, break off, discontinue, stop
- disrupt(v = verb.change) Array - throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process" Derived forms noun disruption4, adjective disruptive1
- disrupt(v = verb.change) interrupt - interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone" is one way to barge in, break in, butt in, chime in, chisel in, cut in, put in
Derived form noun disruption1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derived form noun disruption1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
OXFORD DICTIONARY
disrupt, v.tr.
1 interrupt the flow or continuity of (a meeting, speech, etc.); bring disorder to.
2 separate forcibly; shatter.
1 interrupt the flow or continuity of (a meeting, speech, etc.); bring disorder to.
2 separate forcibly; shatter.
Derivative
disrupter n. (also disruptor). disruption n. disruptive adj. disruptively adv. disruptiveness n.
Etymology
L disrumpere disrupt- (as DIS-, rumpere break)
THESAURUS
disrupt
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
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