disrupt

CEFRB2

/dɪsˈɹʌpt/

verb

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01
verb
To interrupt something and prevent it from continuing normally.
02
verb
Extra detail
To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.
Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike.
Hecklers disrupted the man's speech.

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The Glaswegians bore good-humouredly the mishaps which occasionally disrupted the services during the first month.
1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The Glasgow debacle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 66
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children’s brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
In the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic region, where 2°C warming has already occurred since 1950, the loss of coastal sea ice and permafrost is disrupting traditional Inuit hunting routines.
2017, Anthony J. McMichael, Alistair Woodward, Cameron Muir, Climate Change and the Health of Nations, →ISBN, page 51
The scientific instruments of the day recorded rapid fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field, as powerful electrical currents flowed through the upper atmosphere. Ships' logs noted observations of the northern lights as far south as the Caribbean, and telegraph systems across the world were disrupted as electrical currents were induced in the copper lines.
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30

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