📚 Disrupt, verb. 🔉 /dɪsˈrʌpt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Drastically alter or destroy the structure of. ❗️ Examples: 1. If an explosion of volcanic steam had formed the crater, the blast from below would have disrupted the underlying rock. 2. Applying an irritant chemical to the membrane disrupts the ordered structure: the dye is released and the globular proteins undergo conformational changes. 3. In the shaken solution - which disrupts spatial structure - the ancestral morph persisted solitarily. 4. A hydronium ion, however, disrupts this structure because it can accommodate a maximum of three hydrogen bonds. 5. It is an antistructuralist reading, one that disrupts both the structures within the text and those that frame it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic