To throw into confusion or disorder: Protesters disrupted the candidate's speech.
To interrupt or impede the progress, movement, or procedure of: Our efforts in the garden were disrupted by an early frost.
To break or burst; rupture.
[Latin disrumpere, disrupt-, to break apart : dis-, dis- + rumpere, to break apart; see reup- in Indo-European roots.] dis·rupt'er, dis·rup'tor n., dis·rup'tion n.
Main Entry: dis·rup·tion Pronunciation: dis-'r&p-sh&n Function: noun : the act or process of breaking apart or rupturing disruption of the partly healed wound> —dis·rupt/dis-'r&pt/transitive verb