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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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... threatened was a principle which custom had established. If he expected to save the girl at the Rancho Seco he could not temper his actions with mercy. And he knew that if he was to succeed in his design to disrupt the outlaw gang he would have to remove the man who stood before him, working himself into a new frenzy. There seemed to be no ...
— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer

... Sophocles, like the youngest of dramatists, can strangely enough make mistakes. The entry of Heracles practically makes the play double, marring its continuity. The necessary and remorseless sequence of events which is looked for in dramatic writing is absent. This tendency to disrupt a whole into parts brilliant but unrelated is a feature of Euripides' work; it may perhaps find a readier pardon exactly because Sophocles himself is not able to avoid it always. But the greatest triumph is the character of Deianeira. It is such as one would ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb

... economic environment. In addition, Pakistan's infrastructure is inadequate and deteriorating, low levels of literacy constrain industrial growth, and increasing sectarian, ethnic, and tribal violence disrupt production. ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

... came to Stanley Junction. He demanded that the men on the Great Northern engage in a sympathetic strike until the other road was brought to terms. The older, wiser hands laughed at him. Jim Evans had returned to Stanley Junction, and at once joined in a movement to disrupt the local union by ...
— Ralph on the Engine - The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail • Allen Chapman

... examination of all Federal and State programs and policies directly or indirectly influential on the landscape, to make certain that their effects are beneficial or their adverse effects are minimized and that they encourage rather than disrupt local efforts to avert blight even while achieving sound growth. Obvious connections exist between good local environments and such things as planning aid programs and grants for parks and recreation areas, but other grant programs, public works, road and utility ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior


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