Disrupt

a. [Lat. dirumpo, diruptum - dis, and rumpo, to break. See RUPTURE.] To break in pieces; to burst or rend asunder. - To separate. Disruption, n. [Fr., from Lat. disruptio.] Act of breaking, bursting, or rending asunder; act of bursting and separating; breach; rent; dilaceration. (Scot. Eccl . Hist .) A term applied to that act by which upwards of 400 ministers of the Established Church left their churches and manses, in 1842, in vindication of their principles, and formed themselves into what has since been known as the FREE CHURCH, q. v.