Word Finder - disrupting

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To throw into confusion or disorder.

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Hecklers disrupted the man's speech.

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To interrupt or impede.

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Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike.

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To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

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The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.

I apologize for disrupting your dinner.

The emperor then succeeded in disrupting the Schmalkaldic League by winning over, on purely political grounds, Philip of Hesse and young Maurice of Saxony, whose father, Henry, had died after a very brief reign.

I apologize for disrupting your dinner that way.

An individual who knows where their money is allocated can more easily plan for incidental expenses, such as vacations or other luxuries without disrupting their budget.

Working alongside your existing phone cable, it offers Internet access without disrupting incoming or outgoing calls.

Primarily for the purpose of unfairly disrupting the business of the Complainant.

Little evidence was found for a relationship between maternal occupation to the seven classes of potential endocrine disrupting chemicals and risk of hypospadias.

There is also a need for improved labeling of products that contain BPA and other endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Also to have endocrine disrupting properties in offspring of rats exposed to it during gestation.

If sufficiently energetic, the created hadrons can undergo further interactions, making yet new hadrons and disrupting more nuclei.

Third, adversary Io are degraded by selectively disrupting C4I systems.

Perhaps the thought of playing with their former nemesis had a disrupting effect.

Burnout affects blue collar workers and workaholic managers alike, disrupting family life.

If you get painted aluminum, you can use high quality car wax to clean the furniture without disrupting the painted finish.

Depression and anxiety disorders can cause serious illness, severely disrupting patients' lives and limiting their ability to hold down jobs, go to school, or even take care of themselves.

When you suffer from generalized anxiety disorder, the feelings of anxiety you experience interfere with your everyday life, disrupting your personal, social and work related activities.

Even if this wasn't the case, Sutherland has vowed he will do anything necessary, even serve additional jail time, in order to prevent disrupting the show's production as well as the jobs of the show's cast and crew.

Milbemycin oxim works by disrupting neurotransmission in the worms.

Selamectin is among a family of vermicedes and kills the heartworm by disrupting its nervous system.

Incorporate these simple ideas into the list of things to accomplish around the house and with a little imagination you can enhance and update your home without disrupting your family's routine.

Treating snoring in Portsmouth is much like treating the disrupting sleep problem anywhere else.

Part of the fun is tossing obstacles into your co-players dance routines and disrupting their rhythm, which is almost but not quite as satisfying as pelting friends with obstacles in Mario Kart.

This pressure limits local bleeding without disrupting a significant portion of the circulation.

Most cases of contact dermatitis are mild and can be treated without disrupting the child's school routine or severely affecting his or her quality of life.

Benign (non-cancerous) growths or tumors called hamartomas form in various parts of the body, disrupting their normal function.

Ionizing radiation-Radiation that can damage living tissue by disrupting and destroying individual cells at the molecular level.

Antioxidants directly counteract this by strengthening cell membrane integrity or disrupting the formation of free radicals.

Because the upper band can be intricately detailed, the inner ring band can be molded for comfort without disrupting the ring's decorative accents.

Creating a flexible lesson plan will allow for these days without disrupting future activities by allowing extra time for the students to cope with issues that may arise.

Emotional eating is one of the most misunderstood eating disorders (although not an official medical diagnosis) disrupting lives.

To keep from disrupting the design on the front and the lacing on the back, it comes with a hook and eye closure on the side.

As long as they weren't sleeping together or disrupting the household, what difference did it make that they were in love?

How long until he kicked her out of the apartment, the final act of abandonment after disrupting everything in her life?

She'd almost managed to return to the zone when Darian gripped the chain at the top of the punching bag, stabilizing it before her and disrupting the swaying rhythm.

Consequently they just believed the bullshit he peddled them about the risks to the public from people bent on ' disrupting electronic networks ' .

This is the first experimental evidence of an endocrine disrupting chemical causing the illness.

I had little doubt Quinn would tell Howie, disrupting his tenuous relationship with Julie.

Although the poor may not believe that wealth is attainable for them, they do not want to rock the boat and risk disrupting the system that guarantees them at least some income.