Inflected forms: dis·rupt·ed, dis·rupt·ing, dis·rupts 1. To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.2. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of: Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.3. To break or burst; rupture.
ETYMOLOGY:
Latin disrumpere, disrupt-, to break apart : dis-, dis- + rumpere, to break apart; see reup- in Appendix I.
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