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disrupt

/dɪsˈɹʌpt/

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What does disrupt mean?

verb

  1. To throw into confusion or disorder.
  2. To interrupt or impede.
  3. To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.
More meanings (1)

adjective

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

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IPA pronunciation

/dɪsˈɹʌpt/

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To dream that you see a registered letter, foretells that some money matters will disrupt long-established relations.
Gustavus Hindman MillerTen Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical ExpositionProject Gutenberg ebook #926
Hit down the centre to disrupt the team work of the opposing team; but hit to the side-lines for your aces.
William T. (William Tatem) TildenThe Art of Lawn TennisProject Gutenberg ebook #1451
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He did not know of the lengths to which the Dusarians had gone to disrupt the friendship and alliance which existed between the three great powers of the eastern hemisphere—Helium, Ptarth and Kaol.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThuvia, maid of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #72
The comradeship and continual stimulation, rising from intercourse with those sharing our closest interests and regarding life from the same standpoint, the man tends to seek in his club and among his male companions, and the woman accepts solitude, or seeks dissipations which tend yet farther to disrupt the common conjugal life.
Olive SchreinerWoman and LabourProject Gutenberg ebook #1440