0 present participle of disrupt --
1 to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected: --
Its wealth raised fears that it could monopolise housing for the poor, disrupting local housing markets and undermining the rateable base of local authority income.
Thus, pollutants can interfere with development by disrupting metabolic process and thereby act as teratogenic substances, albeit fairly non-specific.
The potential for disrupting social relations is heightened when discussion becomes passionate.
Other groups discovered that when they needed substitutes, whether temporary or permanent, they could accommodate the changes without disrupting the basic identity of the group.
I t was clear that the neutrophils were disrupting the collagen layers.
A ' safe zone ' is an area in which guerrillas are the dominant power, but unable to prevent attacks disrupting civilians along its many borders.
Disrupting this brain area using (harmless) magnetic stimulation made subjects significantly more selfish.
If the metre, like the 6/4 that underlies this example, is built to allow multiple groupings, dissonances can occur without disrupting it excessively.
