disrupt

disrupt
verb
ADVERB
badly (esp. BrE), seriously, severely, significantly

The bad weather has seriously disrupted supplies of food.

completely, totally
partially, temporarily
potentially

They warned that climate change could potentially disrupt economic activity.

VERB + DISRUPT
threaten to
attempt to
be designed to

The attacks are designed to disrupt plans for the elections.

PHRASES
an attempt to disrupt sth
Disrupt is used with these nouns as the object: ↑balance, ↑class, ↑communication, ↑ecology, ↑economy, ↑flow, ↑habitat, ↑meeting, ↑offence, ↑plan, ↑process, ↑production, ↑rhythm, ↑sleep, ↑supply, ↑system, ↑traffic

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