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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
• s  marked by breaks or gaps
  many routes are unsafe or disrupted

• The SARS epidemic disrupted filming last year.
• The hospital said Raviotta "disrupted its efficient operation.
• Harvests have been seriously disrupted by freak weather, including prolonged droughts in Australia and southern Africa, floods in West Africa, and this past winter's deep frost in .

• interrupt
• disrupt
• break up
• cut off

News & Articles

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• US officials: NSA disrupted 'dozens' of terror plots
  U.S. intelligence officials said that National Security Agency surveillance programs have disrupted "dozens" of terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 countries around the world.
  June 16, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• US intelligence officials: 'Dozens' of terror plots disrupted by NSA surveillance
  U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that National Security Agency surveillance programs have disrupted "dozens" of terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 countries around the world.The statement about the thwarted plots was cleared for release by U.S. officials late Saturday afternoon after requests by Senate Intelligence Committee chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein that intelligence agency ...
  June 16, 2013 - NBC NEWS
• Bulger probe disrupted by U.S. authorities, retired Mass. police official testifies
  A retired police official testified that U.S. authorities disrupted efforts to bust Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger.
  June 13, 2013 - Washington Post

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in BBC News
  The official added: "He [President Obama] said BP must meet its obligations to those whose lives have been disrupted and we will insist everything be done to cap the well, capture the oil, and pay for the clean up, the environmental damage done and...
• David Cameron in Telegraph.co.uk
  In a Canadian newspaper article today, he says: "Too often these international meetings fail to live up to the hype and to the promises made. I'm sure other leaders would admit that. A lot of money is spent laying them on. Host cities are disrupted...
• Hugh Orde in Reuters UK
  These groups are small. The Real and Continuity IRA are disrupted, infiltrated and disorganised,Chief Constable Hugh Orde wrote in the News of the World on Sunday. "We are working flat out with the security services and other specialists...