Disrupt

Definition: Disrupt

Disrupt

Verb

1. Make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "disrupt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1907. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Disrupt

Crosswords: Disrupt

It's designed to disrupt your input output carrier signal so we can pinpoint your location. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Do you lie awake at night thinking of ways to disrupt my husband's campaign? (Monk; writing credit: Andy Breckman; David Breckman)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Could Dell Disrupt the Ink and Toner Supplies Market? [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Mechanistic Toxicology: The Molecular Basis of How Chemicals Disrupt Biological Targets (reference)

• The Sv40 Chromosome Model for Studies of Anticancer Drugs That Disrupt (Molecular Biology Intelligence Unit) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Viewing man-made canals in the marsh as seen on a foggy morning. Canals can disrupt water circulation in marsh systems. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Subsiding marsh and man-made canals south of New Orleans. Canals can disrupt water circulation in marsh systems. Credit: America's Coastlines.

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Health

It can disrupt your daily schedule. (references)

Extreme temperatures may disrupt sleep or prevent you from falling asleep. (references)

A tumor that forms on or near the spinal cord can disrupt this communication. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kyrgyz Republic

On occasion the Government used force to disrupt peaceful demonstrations. (references)

Iran

Ansar-e Hezbollah thugs disrupt lectures and appearances by academics whose views do not conform with their own. (references)

Angola

UNITA used landmines primarily on roads and trails to disrupt transportation, and to control village populations. (references)

Economic History

Cape Verde

The organization did not attempt to disrupt Portuguese control in Cape Verde. (references)

Mauritius

Unions, which account for less than 25 percent of the workforce, act responsibly and rarely disrupt business. (references)

Nicaragua

The rules of the game are sometimes changed by sudden government decree or political considerations that can significantly disrupt business planning. (references)

Human Rights

Iran

Sources claim that such arrests are carried out to "terrorize" the community and to disrupt the lives of its members. (references)

Korea

Trials are open to the public, but the judge may restrict attendance if he believes spectators may seek to disrupt the proceedings. (references)

Bangladesh

Some Islamic groups, claiming that outlawing all fatwas was an attack on Islam, blocked the main roads into the city and tried to disrupt the rally. (references)

Minorities

Switzerland

Although authorities only recorded a few license plate numbers and did not disrupt the gathering, some accused the police of bias because of their conspicuous monitoring of the event. (references)

Political Economy

Eq. Guinea

Corruption and a dysfunctional judicial system disrupt development of Equatorial Guinea's economy and society. (references)

NORWAY

These unpredictable administrative tariff adjustments disrupt advance purchase orders and limit agricultural imports into Norway from the U.S. and other distant markets. (references)

Political Rights

Nepal

Maoist efforts to disrupt the elections by intimidating voters and candidates had little effect. (references)

Ukraine

The Government allegedly used official agencies, especially the State Tax Administration, to disrupt or eliminate the businesses of political opponents prior to the elections. (references)

Guinea

There were credible reports during the 1998 election campaign that ruling party supporters and government officials used force to prevent or disrupt opposition party meetings in Conakry and in provincial towns during the campaign. (references)

Trade

Austria

The risk of political or economic disturbances that could disrupt trade or investment projects in Austria is judged to be very low. (references)

Taiwan

In 1997, the Taiwan authorities promulgated new electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) standards for computer and other electronic goods that threatened to disrupt U.S. computer exports to Taiwan. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

Some companies reportedly ordered overtime to disrupt union meetings. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

përçaj (disunite, divide, tear). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزق (cut up, fracture, jag, lacerate, pull apart, pull to pieces, quarter, rend, rent, rip, rip apart, rive, rupture, sever, shred, tatter, tear, tear to pieces, tear up, unrip, unseam), ‏وقع الفوضى (demoralization), ‏عطل (cancel, cripple, damage, deactivate, derange, foul up, hold up, jam, obstruct, stay, suspend), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, prickle, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), ‏أخل, ‏شوش (bedevil, befuddle, blanket, confuse, demoralize, derange, disarrange, dislocate, disorganize, disturb, dizzy, embroil, fog, fuddle, garble, gum up, hamper, jam, jumble, mire, mix up, muddle, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, outface, parasite, perplex, perturb, rattle, ravel, scramble, smudge, unhinge, unsettle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разстройвам (break, crack, defeat, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, distract, disturb, impair, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), разрушавам (destroy, havoc, pull down, ravage, ruin, take down, throw down, unbuild), разбивам (agitate, beat, beat up, blank, blast, blight, break, break down, break in pieces, break to pieces, burst open, dash, deflate, hack, kick in, mill, overwhelm, pry open, scatter, shatter, smash, smash in, smash up, split off, stamp, whip, whip up, wreck), подривам (blast, blow up, eat away, erode, gut, sap, shovel under, tear up, undermine, wash, wash out, wear away). (various references)

Chinese 

�"乱 (Disrupted, Disrupting). (various references)

Czech

rozvrátit (bust up), přerušit (abort, adjourn, black out, break off, cut off, cut short, discontinue, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off), narušit (blemish, corrupt, dislocate, erode, impair, spoil). (various references)

Danish

afbryde (break, cut, cut a connection, interrupt, shut off, stop, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Dutch

ontwrichting (dislocation). (various references)

Farsi 

منقطع کردن , درهم گسیختن . (various references)

French

interrompre (discontinue). (various references)

German

unterbrechen (break, break in, break off, broken, disconnect, discontinue, disturb, heckle, intercept, interrupt, kill, punctuate, stop, suspend, to disconnect, to discontinue, to disturb, to intercept, to intermit, to interrupt, to suspend). (various references)

Greek 

αναστατώνω (confound, disorganize, fluster, upset), διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, pause, recess, respite, severance, vacation), διαρρηγνύω (breach, burgle, rupture, stave), διασπώ (break through, disintegrate, distract, rupture). (various references)

Hebrew 

לשבש (cripple, derange, dislocate, muddle, queer, upset), ל� תץ (demolish, destroy, pull down, smash). (various references)

Hungarian

szétválaszt (differentiate, disconnect, disjoin, dispart, dissociate, disunite, to disassociate, to disengage, to disrupt, to dissever, to dissociate, to divide, to divorce, to part, to partition, to pull asunder, to separate, to sort, to uncouple, uncouple, unstick), szétszakít (burst, bust up, to burst, to bust, to disrupt, to pull asunder). (various references)

Indonesian

mengkisruhkan, mengacaukan (derange, disarrange, disconcert, disorganize, embroil, entangle, ravel, tangle), memisahkan (detach, disjoint, dissociate). (various references)

Italian

disturbare (annoy, bother, disturb, hinder, inconvenience, irk, jam, trouble, upset), disgregare (break up, disgregate, disintegrate, disjoint), destabilizzare (destabilize). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ディーゼル電気車 (daemon, daily news, day, day and date, day bed, day pack, day'n'date, dealer, debate, debug, debugger, decay, decentralization, deduction, deep, deep kiss, default, defender, Defender Plan, defense, definition, delay, delayed steal, delay-line, demand-pull inflation, deoxyribo, depletion, deregulation, deschooling, describe, descriptor, destination, destructor, detail, detector, Deus, developer, device, dictionary, dieldrin, diesel electric car, differential gear, differentiation, diffusion index, digital, digital camera, digital voltmeter, dilettante, dilettantism, dimension, diminuendo, dimple, dinghy, dinner, dinner dress, dinner jacket, dinner party, dinner set, dinner suit, dip, diploma, director, directory, disc jockey, disclosure, Discman, disco, disco sound, discography, disconnect, discontinue, discotheque, discount, discount sale, discount store, discover, discoverer, discrete, discussion, disinflation, disk, disk brake, disk jockey, diskette, diskless, diskman, Disney, Disneyland, dispatch, dispatcher, dispel, dispenser, displacement, display, disposer, dissolve, distance, distortion, distribution, distributor, disturb, divertimento, divided skirt, divider, divot, French kiss). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ディスラプト . (various references)

Korean 

혼란시키십시�". (various references)

Manx

boirey (aggrieve, annoy, bother, care, confuse, confusion, disconcert, disruption, distract, distraction, disturb, embarrass, embarrassment, heartache, madden, molestation, niggle, nuisance, perplex, perturb, perturbation, pester, preoccupy, put upon, row, strife, trouble, vex, worrier, worry). (various references)

Pig Latin

isruptday

Portuguese

despedaçar (drag out, hagiography, pull, rend, Rive, shatter, tear), desfazer (dash, disincorporate, disjoint, disobedience, dissolve, fade away, limb, ravel out, undo, unlive, unmake, unpack, unpick, untwine, unweave), rebentar (braird, bud, burgeon, burst, comb, detonate, douche, explode, gemmation, part with, pop up, Rive, rupture, split), quebrar (Basil, be bankrupt, breach, break, chip, crack, crush, disintegrate, flaw, fracture, grind, knap, knock off, outbreak, shatter, smash, split, violate), arrancar (abstract, cut up, drag out, extract, feather, force, jerk, lug, pick, pinch, pluck, pull, pull out, rip, start running, take away, tear off, tweezer, yank). (various references)

Romanian

distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), sfãrâma (batter, burst, crack, crackle, crunch, destroy, fritter, granulate, grind, knap, mill, ruin, shatter, shiver, smash, split), rupe (break, break off, break smth. in pieces, cull, declare off, dismember, gather, lacerate, open, pull, pull apart, rend, rift, rip, scatter, separate, sever, snap, splinter, split, stop, tear, uproot). (various references)

Russian 

разрывать (break, decollate, lacerate, rend, rip, rip open, rip up, ripping, sever, severing, severs, tear, tear apart, tear open, unrip, unripe), подрывать (explode, shoot, unsettle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekinuti (abort, adjourn, break off, cease, cut, cut off, cut short, disconnect, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture, sever), poremetiti (derange, disarrange, disturb, unhinge), omesti (foul up, hinder, obstruct). (various references)

Spanish

desvertebrar (dislocate), desorganizar (disorganize), desbaratar planes, dar al traste con (dislocate, pull to pieces, upset), trastornar la cabeza (overturn, subvert, tumble, unhinge, upset), transtornar (disturb), ruptura (blowout, breach, breakaway, breakdown, breaking, breakthrough, breakup, disruption, parting, rupture, severance, split), quebrantar (break, leak, shake, shatter, tear, tear up, throw over, unbuild, undermine), interrumpir (break, break in, cut in, cut off, discontinue, dislocate, disorganize, disturb, halt, hold up, interrupt, tie up). (various references)

Swedish

störa (derange, disturb, faze, fuss about, interfere with, interrupt, intrude, jam, molest, perturb, pervert, worry), bringa i oordning (confound, confuse, derange, disarrange, disarray, disorder, perturb, put out of order), avbryta (break, call off, check, cut off, discontinue, disturb, heckle, horn in on, intermit, interrupt, leave off, put an end, put in one's oar, put one's oar in, sever, slough off, terminate), avbrott (break, cessation, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disruption, hiatus, hitch, hold up, intermission, interrupt, interruption, interrupts, interuption, lapse, letup, lull, pause, time out). (various references)

Turkish

dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, deliver, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), dağılmak (adjourn, be scattered, clear, clear away, come apart, crack up, decay, decompose, diffuse, disband, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, fall, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, scatter, separate, splinter, spread, straggle), yarmak (breach, chop, cleave, Crimp, flaw, hew, incise, maul, plough, plow, rend, rift, rip, sever, slash, slit, splinter, split, tear, wedge off), parçalanmak (break, break to pieces, break up, come apart, crash, crumble, crush, decay, digest, disintegrate, fall to pieces, fly to pieces, go into splinters, go splinters, go to pieces, rend, rupture, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, Spall, splinter, split, split off), parçalamak (bash in, break into pieces, break up, calve, comminute, crumble, cut smth. asunder, cut up, dash, disintegrate, disjoint, dismantle, dismember, lacerate, pull to pieces, rend, scrap, shatter, shiver, shred, smash, smash in, smash up, Spall, splinter, split, take to pieces, tear to pieces, total), karışıklığa itmek, bozulmak (addle, break down, break up, bust, collapse, conk, decay, decline, deteriorate, dwindle, ebb, fail, get out of hand, get out of order, go bad, go haywire, go off, go sour, go under, go wrong, lose face, perish, retrograde, retrogress, rot, sour, spoil, stale, taint, turn, turn sour, upset), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references)

Ukrainian

розірваний, розривати (break, break away, denounce, develop, divorce, outbreak, rupture, tear up), підривати (blast, cave, detonate, erode, explode, fulminate, sap, tear up, undermine). (various references)

perturbo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "disrupt": disrupted, disrupter, disrupters, disrupting, disruption, disruptions, disruptive, disruptively, disruptiveness, disruptivenesses, disrupts. (additional references)

Words containing "disrupt": nondisruptive. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Disrupt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dairut, Diruta, disrrupt, disruppt, disrupti, distrupt, Durupty, Vistupi. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: purist, putrid, stupid, upstir.

-2 letters: dirts, drips, dript, duits, durst, puris, sirup, situp, spirt, sprit, spurt, stirp, strip, trips, turds, turps.

-3 letters: dips, dipt, dirt, dits, drip, duit, dups, dust, pits, puds, puri, purs, puts, rids, rips, rust, ruts, spit, spud, spur, stir, stud, suit, surd, tips, trip, tuis, tups, turd, urds.

-4 letters: dip.

+1 letter: disputer, disrupts, stupider.

+2 letters: dipterous, disputers, disrepute, disrupted, disrupter, eupatrids, preaudits, tricuspid, upstirred.

+3 letters: disreputes, disrupters, disrupting, disruption, disruptive, pedicurist, punditries, repudiates, surprinted, tricuspids, turpitudes, unscripted.

+4 letters: disruptions, duplicators, eurypterids, outpromised, outsprinted, outstripped, pasteurised, pasteurized, pedicurists, productions, prostituted, putridities, repudiators, superintend, unaspirated.

+5 letters: computerised, decrepitudes, disreputable, disreputably, disruptively, expenditures, jurisprudent, outspreading, profundities, promptitudes, pulchritudes, reduplicates, repudiations, superintends.

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