disruption

disrupt | American Dictionary

disrupt
verb[ T ]
us/dɪsˈrʌpt/
to prevent something, esp. a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected:
A heavy fall of snow disrupted traffic during the rush hour.

disruption

noun[ C/U ]us/dɪsˈrʌp·ʃən/
[ C ]Strikes threaten more disruptions for the tourist industry.

disrupt | Business English

disrupt
verb[ T ]
uk /dɪsˈrʌpt/us
to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected:
Meetings with her lawyers did not disrupt the schedule.
Commerce could be disrupted in a cyberterrorism attack.

Examples of disrupt

disrupt
All disrupted strains had the same atypical morphology when developed under standard conditions.
However, myelin-mediated inhibition has mostly been studied under conditions in which the organization of myelin was disrupted.
The energies of life in this case are rampant, disrupting what is good.
If a pattern of anticipation is to be disrupted, it must first be established.
Alternatively, if the tumors are separate primary lesions, then different genetic pathways might have been disrupted and the tumors may require separate treatment strategies.
Nerves rated as severe contained numerous damaged axons throughout the nerve, had grossly disrupted nerve morphology and sometimes contained few, if any, healthy axons.
Even before organised tourism on a large scale occurred, there was evidence that animal behaviour was being disrupted.
To make matters worse, evacuation greatly disrupted the distribution of the paper and hit circulation.
The window opens up new possibilities for the theatre, extending rather than disrupting its conventions.
The plague years 1712 - 14 severely disrupted the old poor relief system.
The pre-conquest societies of this region too were disrupted in a number of ways.
A turning point is one in which the average developmental trajectory is disrupted in a positive or negative fashion.
In light of this approach, one might ask what would happen if this cognitive structure is disrupted.
Each event in the sequence shared a common process of disrupted family process plus frequent family transitions and marked social disadvantage.
He recognized that, under extreme conditions, the attachment relationship could be disrupted, thus increasing the risk of pathological development.
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