disrupt

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   throw into disorder

   This event disrupted the orderly process

2. 2
   verb

   To throw into confusion or disorder.

   Hecklers disrupted the man's speech.

3. 3
   verb

   To interrupt or impede.

   Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike.

4. 4
   verb

   To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

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

5. 5
   verb

   interfere in someone else's activity

6. 6
   verb

   make a break in

7. 7
   adj

   Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Etymology

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