Disrupt

Quick meaning: Disrupt is a verb meaning (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.

Meaning

(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To interrupt or impede.
2. (transitive) To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.
3. (obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Example Sentences

Hecklers disrupted the man's speech.

Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike.

The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.

The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.

Word Forms

• disrupts
• disrupting
• disrupted

Synonyms for disrupt

Depending on context, synonyms include dislocate, interrupt, cut off, break up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interrupt, break up, cut off, disturbance, disturb, frustrate.

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