The Collaborative International Dictionary
disrupt \dis*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disrupting.]
To break asunder; to rend.
--Thomson.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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of disrupt English)
Usage examples of "disrupting".
He also decided that letting the Village children tag along with Gringg visitors would be a subtle way of disrupting the surveillance Barnstable and Greene had set up.
Helva was at a loss to figure out why Parollan was deliberately disrupting the mood Railly was attempting to create.
Joat let the signal disrupting transmitter/receivers trickle from her pockets in their wake.
I don't know how you and Kapash settled this most unusual last-minute rescue, but I do not like disrupting my schedule unnecessarily.
Add Kylara of the Southern Weyr who was apt to make trouble for the pure joy of getting attention by disrupting others, and nothing would be accomplished Nadira of Igen Weyr liked Lessa but in a passive way.
Immediately all the frustrated anger of the morning returned, disrupting what little objectivity he had gained at the peaceful lakeside.
The questions are: Which technologies can be adopted without disrupting the culture of the planet?
More oddly still, rather than his disrupting the image as ought to happen, the pool reformed behind his finger.
The real trick would be bringing those two rings up past the Cardinal and slipping them into the continually revolving set of eight others without disrupting either the Cardinal or the existing Giephaetum/Shatum ring.
They came in their hundreds, week after week, disrupting both his practice and his home life.
Two commonly cited culprits for the present epoch are the rise of the Himalayas and the formation of the Isthmus of Panama, the first disrupting air flows, the second ocean currents.
Then, beginning about five million years ago, Panama rose from the sea, closing the gap between North and South America, disrupting the flows of warming currents between the Pacific and Atlantic, and changing patterns of precipitation across at least half the world.
I heard only gossip of the Prince's betrothal, complaints about Bingtown's war with Chalced disrupting trade, and the local mutterings about the very strange weather.
Bingtown’s continuing war with Chalced was disrupting shipping and travel badly.
Then I heard a rumour that Lord Golden was completely enraged that Chalcedean vessels were disrupting trade and delaying the arrival of the Jamaillian cloaks that he had specially commissioned for the Outislander expedition wardrobe.