disrupt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To throw into confusion or disorder.
To interrupt or impede.
To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

adj

/dɪsˈɹʌpt/ /dɪzˈɹʌpt/ /dɪzˈɹʊpt/ en-us-disrupt.ogg

disrupt disrupts disrupting disrupted more disrupt most disrupt

Borrowed from Latin disruptus, from disrumpo, commonly dirumpo (“to break or burst asunder”), from dis-, di- (“apart, asunder”) + rumpo (“to break”).

dislocate

disruptable disruptible disruption disruptive

disruptability disruptase disrupter disruptor photodisrupt

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