disruption

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISRUPTION, noun [Latin] 1. The act of rending asunder; the act of bursting and separating. 2. Breach; rent; dilaceration; as the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; the disruption of a stratum of earth; disruption of the flesh.
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