disrupt
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- v make a break in
- v throw into disorder
This event disrupted the orderly process - v interfere in someone else's activity
- Under normal circumstances, criminologists believe, there are two ways to stop a cycle of gang violence: either dismantle the gangs or disrupt their business.
- Three episodes are finished, but the strike could delay or disrupt the rest of the season.
- Pranksters disrupt a hospital, and nobody is laughing The red brick Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on Manhattan's Upper East Side is an example of advanced.