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verb
- 1. interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem: "flooding disrupted rail services" Similar
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to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected: Heavy snow disrupted travel into the city this morning. The meeting was disrupted by a group of protesters who shouted and threw fruit at the speaker. business specialized.
to prevent something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected: Heavy snow disrupted travel into the city this morning. The meeting was disrupted by a group of protesters who shouted and threw fruit at the speaker. business specialized.
specifically : to successfully challenge (established businesses, products, or services) by using an innovation (such as a new technology or business model) to gain a foothold in a marginal or new segment of the market and then fundamentally changing the nature of the market.
DISRUPT meaning: to cause (something) to be unable to continue in the normal way to interrupt the normal progress or activity of (something)
disrupt. (dɪsrʌpt ) Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense disrupts , present participle disrupting , past tense, past participle disrupted. 1. verb B2. If someone or something disrupts an event, system, or process, they cause difficulties that prevent it from continuing or operating in a normal way. Anti-war protesters disrupted the debate.
To disrupt is to interrupt or throw something into disorder. If you don't turn your phone off before a play, it might ring and disrupt the actors and the audience. Disrupt goes back to the Latin root disrumpere, "to break apart." When you disrupt, you break someone's concentration, break up a routine, or break apart a system or order, as when ...
verb (used with object) to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference. to destroy, usually temporarily, the normal continuance or unity of; interrupt: Telephone service was disrupted for hours. to break apart: to disrupt a connection.
Definition of disrupt verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
disrupt meaning, definition, what is disrupt: to prevent something from continuing in ...: Learn more.
to interrupt something and stop it continuing as it should: He disturbs other children and disrupts the class. disruption. noun [ C, U ] uk / dɪsˈrʌpʃ ə n / us. the disruption of services. disruptive. adjective. disruptive behaviour. (Definition of disrupt from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
