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1. Make a break in
   "We disrupt the program for the following messages";
   - interrupt, break up, cut off
    
2. Throw into disorder
   "This event disrupted the orderly process"
    
3. Interfere in someone else's activity
   "Please don't disrupt me while I'm on the phone";
   - interrupt

Derived forms: disrupted, disrupting, disrupts

Type of: barge in [informal], break, break in, break off, butt in, chime in [informal], chip in [informal], cut in, discontinue, put in, stop

Encyclopedia: Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide