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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.
  2. v. To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of: Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.
  3. v. To break or burst; rupture.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To break or burst asunder; separate forcibly.
  2. Torn from or asunder; severed by rending or breaking.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To throw into confusion or disorder.
  2. v. To interrupt or impede.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Rent off; torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
  2. v. To break asunder; to rend.
  3. v. to destroy the continuity of, usually temporarily.
  4. v. To interfere with or halt, especially by causing a lack of order.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a break in
  2. v. throw into disorder
  3. v. interfere in someone else's activity

Etymologies

  1. Latin disrumpere, disrupt-, to break apart : dis-, dis- + rumpere, to break apart; see reup- in Indo-European roots.

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