disrupt
verb/dɪsˈrʌpt/
/dɪsˈrʌpt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disrupt | /dɪsˈrʌpt/ /dɪsˈrʌpt/ |
| he / she / it disrupts | /dɪsˈrʌpts/ /dɪsˈrʌpts/ |
| past simple disrupted | /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ |
| past participle disrupted | /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ /dɪsˈrʌptɪd/ |
| -ing form disrupting | /dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/ /dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/ |
- disrupt something to make it difficult for something to continue in the normal way
- Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting.
- Bus services will be disrupted tomorrow because of the bridge closure.
Extra Examples- The bad weather has seriously disrupted supplies of food.
- They warned that climate change could potentially disrupt economic activity.
- I'm not going to let him disrupt my life any longer.
- Public transport services are likely to be severely disrupted tomorrow.
- The award ceremony was completely disrupted by a technicians' strike.
- The refusal of the US to participate threatened to disrupt the negotiations.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- badly
- seriously
- severely
- …
- threaten to
- attempt to
- be designed to
- …
- an attempt to disrupt something
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- disrupt something (business) to cause significant change in an industry or market by means of innovation (= new ideas or methods)
- Our radical new printing technology is disrupting traditional manufacturing.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin disrupt- ‘broken apart’, from the verb disrumpere.
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