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/dɪsrˈəpt/ Listen

verb

disrupt v. t. (past & past part. disrupted; pres. part. disrupting)

To break asunder; to rend.

To destroy the continuity of, usually temporarily; as, electrical power was disrupted by the hurricane.

To interfere with or halt, especially by causing a lack of order; as, the shouting of the demonstrators disrupted the meeting.

adjective

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

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Etymology of 'Disrupt'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disrupt" Quotes from Famous Books

... companionship told upon the rest, Madame retained her sweetness through it all, hushing our lips from many a sharp retort that had threatened to disrupt our party long before this time. She had merely to glance toward us to silence any rising strife, for no man having a true heart beneath his doublet could find spirit to quarrel before the disapproving glance of her dark eyes. It ...

— Prisoners of Chance - The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, - through His Love for a Lady of France • Randall Parrish

... Alaric; and not, simply the maniacal noise invaded the fruitful provinces of sleep like Hun and Vandal, the irrational repetition ploughed the minds of those unhappy somnivolents, leaving them worse than sheared by barbarians, disrupt, as by earthquake, with the unanswerable question to ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... invitation, Berry returned to his roll and, after eyeing it with disgust which the bread in no way deserved, proceeded to disrupt and eviscerate it with every circumstance of barbarity. Covertly, ...

— Jonah and Co. • Dornford Yates

... and guided by the heart; or that every brute force made ghastly and deadly to the nth degree that modern science can devise, be periodically called in to settle the disputes or curb the ambitions that will disrupt the peace of ...

— The Higher Powers of Mind and Spirit • Ralph Waldo Trine

... men have the self-restraint to resist the temptings of a small pleasure to-day in order to gain a larger to-morrow or next day. The second is that few men possess the power of continuous concentration. Most of us cannot concentrate at all; any slight distraction suffices to disrupt and destroy the whole train of thought. A good many can concentrate for a few hours, for a week or so, for two or three months. But there comes a small achievement and it satisfies, or a small discouragement and it disheartens. Only to the rare few is given the power to concentrate steadily, year ...

— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips

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