disrupt

[dɪsˈrʌpt]

Definition:
1. Make a break in.
2. Throw into disorder.
3. Interfere in someone else's activity.

Use 'disrupt' in a sentence:

1. The drought has severely disrupted agricultural production.
2. The malpractices of false advertising and pricing fraud have damaged the legitimate rights and interests of students and their parents and disrupted the orderly market competition.
3. It has been pouring in Delhi almost non stop for the past three days, disrupting normal life.
4. It also affects wildlife, disrupting the natural light-dark cycle that insects, birds and other animals are tuned1 into.
5. Smart systems will also disrupt one industry after another.
6. Likewise, nicotine will disrupt your sleep.
7. Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.
8. The tides disrupt the galaxies as they repeatedly swing close to one another.
9. If oil supplies were ever disrupted, it would send U.S. oil-import bills into the stratosphere.
10. Speakers have been shouted down, classes disrupted, teachers made to grovel.
11. The school is specially for children whose schooling has been disrupted by illness.
12. In addition, solar flares can disrupt power systems.
13. Indeed, when the expert pays attention to the mechanics, this is liable to disrupt performance.
14. Man-made and natural disasters have disrupted the Government's economic plans.
15. It will disrupt your sleep.
16. Whatever happens, production mustn't be disrupted.
17. An active digestive system can disrupt sleep.
18. Psychologists say that using limited holiday time can lead to resentment4 and your sleeping patterns are disrupted, just like normal jet lag.
19. The soldiers, for their part, agreed not to disrupt the election campaign.
20. A crowd of protesters disrupted the meeting.
21. They tried to disrupt his chess games, too.
22. They can disrupt experiments with the bacteria organisms they carry.
23. As well as obscuring our view of a naturally dark night sky with that all-too-familiar glow, artificial light can disrupt our sleep and affect our health.
24. Disrupt any of these, and you can lose your biggest trees.
25. It could disrupt the food chains there.
26. Some are known to disrupt hormonal systems.
27. It's Illegal To Disrupt A Wedding In Australia.
28. New business models disrupt established ones.
29. How do you disrupt when your customers don't want to be disrupted?
30. The key question was whether they would stand aside or would disrupt the elections.
31. Big life events can disrupt even the best strategies.
32. Research on Crimes of Disrupting the Order of Financial Administration.
33. He didn't want anyone trying to disrupt the balance of power.
34. Migrating birds affect ecosystems both at home and at their winter destinations, and disrupting the traditional routes could have unexpected side effects.
35. And lack of recovery — whether by disrupting sleep with thoughts of work or having continuous cognitive arousal by watching our phones — is costing our companies$ 62 billion a year in lost productivity.
36. At 6:21 pm Wednesday, the drone entered the areas where telecom services had been disrupted and started to provide stable and continuous mobile signal coverage for an area of about 50 square kilometers.
37. Unforeseen circumstances will disrupt your daily routine.
38. But people went with the flow, and no one let those issues disrupt the class.
39. Adaptive watermarking algorithms based on chaos disrupt and energy analysis of blocks.
40. Mining activities have totally disrupted the traditional way of life of the Yanomami Indians.
41. Eventually cable TV was able to disrupt the status quo anyway.
42. These will disrupt harvests and make prices more volatile still.
43. Hydrophobic inhibitors like rotenone or piericidin most likely disrupt the electron transfer.
44. Instead, these crises disrupt deeply ingrained ways of thinking and behaving.
45. Civilian aviation is being disrupted, not by the age-old desires for speed, romanticism and glamour, but by the pressing need to respond to a changing climate.
46. If either were killed, delicate negotiations would be seriously disrupted.
47. Damage to the cerebellum can disrupt motor activity in other ways.
48. Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting.
49. The effect was to disrupt the food chain, starving many animals and those that preyed on them.
50. Anti-war protesters disrupted the debate.
51. Bus services will be disrupted tomorrow because of the bridge closure.
52. Many people fear change because they do not like the old ways to be disrupted.
53. The government will not seek to disrupt the legitimate business activities of the defendant.
54. A stroke can disrupt the supply of oxygen to the brain.