disrupt

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: dis=rupt

OXFORD DICTIONARY

disrupt, v.tr.
1 interrupt the flow or continuity of (a meeting, speech, etc.); bring disorder to.
2 separate forcibly; shatter.

Derivative

disrupter n. (also disruptor). disruption n. disruptive adj. disruptively adv. disruptiveness n.

Etymology

L disrumpere disrupt- (as DIS-, rumpere break)

THESAURUS

disrupt

agitate, atomize, baffle, balk, blast, brave, breach, break in, break into, break into pieces, break to pieces, break up, challenge, checkmate, circumvent, confound, confront, contravene, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, crash, cross, crunch, crush, cut to pieces, dash, defeat, defy, demolish, destroy, diffuse, disarray, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dish, disorder, disorganize, disperse, disturb, elude, fission, flummox, foil, fragment, frustrate, grind, hole, interfere with, interrupt, knock the chocks, make mincemeat of, mess up, mince, muddle, nonplus, open, perplex, pulverize, ruin, rummage, rupture, sabotage, scatter, scotch, shake up, shatter, shiver, smash, smash up, spike, splinter, spoil, squash, squish, stonewall, stump, thwart, unsettle, upset