disrupt

[Dis*ruptĀ·]

To disrupt is to interrupt or throw something into disorder. If you don't turn your phone off before a play, it might ring and disrupt the actors and the audience.

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Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Verb
interfere in someone else''s activity; "Please don''t interrupt me while I''m on the phone"

Verb
throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

Verb
make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"


a.
Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

v. t.
To break asunder; to rend.


Disrupt

Dis*rupt" , a. [L. disruptus, diruptus, p. p. of disrumpere, to break or burst asunder; dis- + rumpere to break, burst. See Rupture.] Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Disrupt

Dis*rupt", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disrupting.] To break asunder; to rend. Thomson.

Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

To break asunder; to rend.

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Usage Examples

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

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Other Usage Examples

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information.

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