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disrupt

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

dis·rupt / disˈrəpt/ • v. [tr.] interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem: a rail strike that could disrupt both passenger and freight service. ∎ drastically alter or destroy the structure of (something): alcohol can disrupt the chromosomes of an unfertilized egg. DERIVATIVES: dis·rupt·er (also dis·rup·tor / -tər/ ) n. dis·rup·tion / -ˈrəpshən/ n.

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disrupt

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

disrupt •adapt, apt, enrapt, rapt, unmapped, untapped •periapt • snow-capped •accept, crept, except, incept, inept, intercept, kept, leapt, overleaped, sept, slept, swept, upswept, wept, yclept •adept • housekept • transept •precept • concept • percept •rainswept • windswept • undraped •pearshaped •conscript, crypt, encrypt, harelipped, hipped, script, unequipped, unwhipped •Egypt • eucalypt • transcript •nondescript • typescript • manuscript •subscript •adopt, co-opt, Copt, opt •unhoped •abrupt, corrupt, disrupt, erupt, interrupt, irrupt •bankrupt •underdeveloped, undeveloped •excerpt • sculpt

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