disrupt

About 2.46 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To throw into confusion or disorder.

   Hecklers disrupted the man's speech.

2. verb To interrupt or impede.

   Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike.

3. 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.

4. adjective Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Similar words

interrupt break up cut off disturbance disturb frustrate confuse unsettle embarrass perturb

Often followed by

the their a and or this it his our your

Word family

disrupted disrupter disrupters disrupting disruptor disruptors disrupts