disrupt

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To interrupt an activity or process so that it cannot continue normally.

   The strike disrupted train services across the country.

2. 2
   verb

   To throw something into confusion or disorder.

   Hecklers disrupted the speech with loud shouting.

3. 3
   verb

   To change a market or industry dramatically by introducing a new product or way of doing things.

   Streaming services disrupted the way people watch television.

Simplified etymology

Disrupt, recorded in late Middle English, comes ultimately from Latin rumpere “to break” and means literally “break apart.”

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

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