Broken
Broken adjective - Forcibly separated into many pieces.
Disrupted and broken are semantically related in participle topic. In some cases you can use "Disrupted" instead an adjective "Broken", when it comes to topics like disturbed, damaged, interrupted.
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- Typically this involves everybody Kung Fu fighting, with disrupted dinners and broken china to the nth degree.
Source: Wok Fu -
All twelve of them were able to strike the planet so hard that it caused catastrophic earthquakes, flooded Britain, disrupted the Earth's geomagnetic field and seems to have broken time and space.
Source: Webcomic / FreakAngels -
These Ice programs had special defensive measures to deploy normal viruses when disrupted or 'broken' by normal means.
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