verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disrupt/upset sb’s routine
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She disliked things that disrupted her routine.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
seriously
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Also, the menstrual cycle of women can seriously disrupt fluid levels, causing in some cases increases of several pounds.
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An effective preventive strategy which challenged these interests would seriously disrupt or impose great costs on capitalist producers.
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Officials now warn that fuel supplies could be seriously disrupted this winter.
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Observers had feared that violence would seriously disrupt the electoral process.
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Over the ensuing days traffic and commuters in London were seriously disrupted by hoax bomb warning calls which led to station closures.
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Secondary schools were seriously disrupted by pro-Aristide protests throughout May.
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Work at the four offices involved was seriously disrupted for the day, although North Sea operations continued without interruption.
severely
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In other words, the education of 250,000 pupils is being severely disrupted .
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Environmentalists fear that, if completed, the hydro-electric dam will severely disrupt the Danube ecosystem.
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Soviet trade through Iasi was severely disrupted , as was trade with the West through Timisoara.
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Boxing Day frost threat Frost is threatening to severely disrupt the busy Boxing Day programme.
totally
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The whole balance between guards and inmates was totally disrupted .
■ NOUN
activity
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These proto-oncogenes can apparently cause cancer when something happens to disrupt their normal activities .
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The problem occurs in the patient who has an occasional seizure, which alarms fellow workers and disrupts work activities .
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The effect of fluctuations is ironed out, so that the personnel department is not disrupted by recruitment activity .
attempt
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Yet no one walked out of the big top, there were no fundamentalist pickets outside, no attempts to disrupt the service.
election
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The killings were seen as an attempt by Sikh extremists to disrupt the ongoing general election campaign.
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It seems more likely that the Khmers Rouges decided not to disrupt the election , perhaps for good reason.
life
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She would go on loving him but she would not disrupt his life further.
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Plant cover crops such as cereal rye to add organic matter and disrupt the life cycle of root knot nematodes.
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Now with the beautiful girl as naked model he works again - and disrupts his life .
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His objective was to permanently disrupt patient community life .
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Violetta is hardly the type to let lingering illness disrupt her lusty courtesan life .
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And it helps to disrupt their lives .
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Male speaker I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit.
meeting
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They used violence to disrupt opposition rallies and meetings .
operation
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Her problem was to figure out how to implement such a program without disrupting the traditional operations at the branch office.
pattern
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Perhaps better housing policy could disrupt the pattern .
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This surge of humanity has disrupted land-holding patterns and economic relationships and engendered ethnic conflict.
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It effectively disrupted the old established patterns but prevented new and more sensible patterns developing.
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But male elephants only mature at around 30 years old and their many deaths have disrupted patterns of reproduction.
peace
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Labour would disrupt industrial peace by weakening the power of management and the courts.
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Korzhakov and his allies may have the resources to disrupt the peace , and with it the election, if they choose.
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Critics of U.S. aid have questioned whether the White House package could disrupt peace talks.
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Unilateral State intervention in the absence of an authoritative decision can promote international disorder and disrupt international peace and security.
plan
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But Falkenhayn's assault on Verdun disrupted the Allied plans .
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I had been astonished that day that the wide range of choices did not disrupt her plan .
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The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on, but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans .
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I refuse to hear anything that might disrupt my own plans .
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Luke Calder wasn't going to get a chance to disrupt all her plans for the future.
process
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Observers had feared that violence would seriously disrupt the electoral process .
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She gives the impression that being tour guide and teacher to this group of foreigners disrupted a process of something more important.
service
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The health service over the last twenty years has been marred by periodic pay disputes which have disrupted patient services.
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People throw bricks, fight cops, disrupt Sunday services in churches, and spill blood all over the floor.
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The storm caused widespread damage and heavy flooding, disrupting services and communications.
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Yet no one walked out of the big top, there were no fundamentalist pickets outside, no attempts to disrupt the service .
system
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To introduce canonised solicitors into the Supreme Court of the universe is to disrupt this system .
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The bomber in Vallejo, police said, was part of a plot to disrupt the criminal justice system there.
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At the least, President Reagan's plans of involving the private sector could disrupt this system .
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At low to moderate doses, these drugs significantly reduce anxiety without impairing or disrupting other brain systems .
■ VERB
threaten
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Boxing Day frost threat Frost is threatening to severely disrupt the busy Boxing Day programme.
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But Democrats threatened to disrupt the proceedings on welfare reform if the alternative was denied a chance on the floor.
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But groups representing the disabled are threatening to disrupt the day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Hecklers repeatedly disrupted Duke's news conference, calling him a liar and a fascist.
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Moving schools frequently can disrupt a child's education.
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The aim of the strike was to disrupt rail services as much as possible.
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The protest disrupted the Democratic convention Saturday, nearly forcing its cancellation.
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We hope the move to Kansas won't disrupt the kids' schooling too much.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Birds, nesting in the ivy, squeaked as she disrupted them.
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If you find a prescribed medication is disrupting your sleep, the effects may be temporary.
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It does not belong to the basic harmony, which it tends to disrupt .
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Nature resumes its activities, the patterns of behaviour you disrupted by your arrival.
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Parental reactions are turbulent, and the usual pathways for the development of close parent-infant bonds are disrupted.
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The Prince is rather easier to keep tabs on, but there is always the unforeseen to disrupt even the best-laid plans.