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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disrupt
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disrupt/upset sb’s routine
▪ She disliked things that disrupted her routine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
seriously
▪ Also, the menstrual cycle of women can seriously disrupt fluid levels, causing in some cases increases of several pounds.
▪ An effective preventive strategy which challenged these interests would seriously disrupt or impose great costs on capitalist producers.
▪ Officials now warn that fuel supplies could be seriously disrupted this winter.
▪ Observers had feared that violence would seriously disrupt the electoral process.
▪ Over the ensuing days traffic and commuters in London were seriously disrupted by hoax bomb warning calls which led to station closures.
▪ Secondary schools were seriously disrupted by pro-Aristide protests throughout May.
▪ Work at the four offices involved was seriously disrupted for the day, although North Sea operations continued without interruption.
severely
▪ In other words, the education of 250,000 pupils is being severely disrupted.
▪ Environmentalists fear that, if completed, the hydro-electric dam will severely disrupt the Danube ecosystem.
▪ Soviet trade through Iasi was severely disrupted, as was trade with the West through Timisoara.
▪ Boxing Day frost threat Frost is threatening to severely disrupt the busy Boxing Day programme.
totally
▪ The whole balance between guards and inmates was totally disrupted.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ These proto-oncogenes can apparently cause cancer when something happens to disrupt their normal activities.
▪ The problem occurs in the patient who has an occasional seizure, which alarms fellow workers and disrupts work activities.
▪ The effect of fluctuations is ironed out, so that the personnel department is not disrupted by recruitment activity.
attempt
▪ Yet no one walked out of the big top, there were no fundamentalist pickets outside, no attempts to disrupt the service.
election
▪ The killings were seen as an attempt by Sikh extremists to disrupt the ongoing general election campaign.
▪ It seems more likely that the Khmers Rouges decided not to disrupt the election, perhaps for good reason.
life
▪ She would go on loving him but she would not disrupt his life further.
▪ Plant cover crops such as cereal rye to add organic matter and disrupt the life cycle of root knot nematodes.
▪ Now with the beautiful girl as naked model he works again - and disrupts his life.
▪ His objective was to permanently disrupt patient community life.
▪ Violetta is hardly the type to let lingering illness disrupt her lusty courtesan life.
▪ And it helps to disrupt their lives.
▪ Male speaker I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit.
meeting
▪ They used violence to disrupt opposition rallies and meetings.
operation
▪ Her problem was to figure out how to implement such a program without disrupting the traditional operations at the branch office.
pattern
▪ Perhaps better housing policy could disrupt the pattern.
▪ This surge of humanity has disrupted land-holding patterns and economic relationships and engendered ethnic conflict.
▪ It effectively disrupted the old established patterns but prevented new and more sensible patterns developing.
▪ But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction.
peace
▪ Labour would disrupt industrial peace by weakening the power of management and the courts.
▪ Korzhakov and his allies may have the resources to disrupt the peace, and with it the election, if they choose.
▪ Critics of U.S. aid have questioned whether the White House package could disrupt peace talks.
▪ Unilateral State intervention in the absence of an authoritative decision can promote international disorder and disrupt international peace and security.
plan
▪ But Falkenhayn's assault on Verdun disrupted the Allied plans.
▪ I had been astonished that day that the wide range of choices did not disrupt her plan.
▪ The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on, but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans.
▪ I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans.
▪ Luke Calder wasn't going to get a chance to disrupt all her plans for the future.
process
▪ Observers had feared that violence would seriously disrupt the electoral process.
▪ She gives the impression that being tour guide and teacher to this group of foreigners disrupted a process of something more important.
service
▪ The health service over the last twenty years has been marred by periodic pay disputes which have disrupted patient services.
▪ People throw bricks, fight cops, disrupt Sunday services in churches, and spill blood all over the floor.
▪ The storm caused widespread damage and heavy flooding, disrupting services and communications.
▪ Yet no one walked out of the big top, there were no fundamentalist pickets outside, no attempts to disrupt the service.
system
▪ To introduce canonised solicitors into the Supreme Court of the universe is to disrupt this system.
▪ The bomber in Vallejo, police said, was part of a plot to disrupt the criminal justice system there.
▪ At the least, President Reagan's plans of involving the private sector could disrupt this system.
▪ At low to moderate doses, these drugs significantly reduce anxiety without impairing or disrupting other brain systems.
■ VERB
threaten
▪ Boxing Day frost threat Frost is threatening to severely disrupt the busy Boxing Day programme.
▪ But Democrats threatened to disrupt the proceedings on welfare reform if the alternative was denied a chance on the floor.
▪ But groups representing the disabled are threatening to disrupt the day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hecklers repeatedly disrupted Duke's news conference, calling him a liar and a fascist.
▪ Moving schools frequently can disrupt a child's education.
▪ The aim of the strike was to disrupt rail services as much as possible.
▪ The protest disrupted the Democratic convention Saturday, nearly forcing its cancellation.
▪ We hope the move to Kansas won't disrupt the kids' schooling too much.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Birds, nesting in the ivy, squeaked as she disrupted them.
▪ If you find a prescribed medication is disrupting your sleep, the effects may be temporary.
▪ It does not belong to the basic harmony, which it tends to disrupt.
▪ Nature resumes its activities, the patterns of behaviour you disrupted by your arrival.
▪ Parental reactions are turbulent, and the usual pathways for the development of close parent-infant bonds are disrupted.
▪ The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on, but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
disrupt

disrupt \dis*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disrupting.]

  1. To break asunder; to rend.
    --Thomson.

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

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disrupt

1650s, but rare before c.1820, from Latin disruptus, past participle of disrumpere (see disruption). Or perhaps a back-formation from disruption. Related: Disrupted; disrupting.

Wiktionary
disrupt

  1. (context obsolete English) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To throw into confusion or disorder. 2 (context transitive English) To interrupt or impede.

WordNet
disrupt

  1. v. make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" [syn: interrupt, break up, cut off]

  2. throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

  3. interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone" [syn: interrupt]

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Wikipedia
Disrupt

Disrupt was an American grindcore/ crust punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. They only released one mainstream album (Unrest on Relapse), however the band acquired a cult following on the strength of several underground 7-inch EPs and compilation appearances. Their lyrics are anarchist in nature.

Members of the band have gone on to play in many other bands since the dissolution of Disrupt, including Consume, Grief, State of Fear, Goff, Demonic Death Preachers, Effects Of Alcohol, and Chicken Chest and the Bird Boys

Usage examples of "disrupt".

Not only are there life-threatening consequences associated with drinking alcohol, but that one little glass of wine is guaranteed to disrupt your deep, antiaging sleep and slow down your fat-burning mechanism.

He was placed in one of the two solitary cells, as far away from the crowded bullpen as possible, but the jail was so small that Ron could disrupt it from anywhere.

Only last year, Dakotan researchers found conclusive evidence that a comet came through our solar system and disrupted the orbits of all the inner planets, yours included.

Sum Total of what should be uniformly happy Egos fitting snug as a bug into sensory flatland: you have disrupted the cavalcade of smiley-faced Shadows.

Alas, the brief popularity of this idea could not survive the demonstration that long-term memories persisted even if the total electrical activity of the brain was disrupted, by epileptic fits or electroconvulsive shock, for instance, or was brought virtually to zero by coma or concussion.

When the stylus fired a coherent beam of mesons at the border, the razor wire of disrupted graphs sliced fragments of their own surreal dimensions from the knot of virtual quarks and gluons making up each meson, and it was possible to exploit coherence effects to make some of these fragments act in unison to modify the border itself.

My intention was to reach a position far enough from Kedge-Lockaby so that I would not disrupt electromagnetic systems on its surface when I made my hyperspatial leap, yet close enough to the planet so that it would eclipse the dazzling EM pulse of my ultraluminal crossover from the rinky-dink sensors of the tender.

I consider the proposal to send the Standing Naval Force to disrupt these perfectly legitimate Soviet naval exercises is unjustified, dangerous in the extreme, and, in the sense that such provocation and resultant confrontation could well lead to the outbreak of full-scale war, highly irresponsible.

She felt the concentration of the red fire building up and knew that while it still tried to disrupt the power of the jewels it was now also being bent toward her in a last frenzy of battle.

The Christians wanted the PLO out not only because it was disrupting Lebanese life but because without the Palestinian guerrillas, the Lebanese Muslims would be unable to press their demands for more power.

If my functions are disrupted, harm may come to the human residents of Mojave Center.

Thus, Beijing continues to focus on the concept of multilateralism and the legitimacy of the United Nations as the best ways to slow or even disrupt U.

You and your boyfriend from Pieds Nus are continually disrupting our tube!

Transportation Command, and had been given an earful on how the transportation plans had been severely disrupted.

He did not task field offices to try to determine whether any plots were being considered within the United States or to take any action to disrupt any such plots.