Associations to the word «Disrupt»

Wiktionary

DISRUPT, verb. (transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
DISRUPT, verb. (transitive) To interrupt or impede.
DISRUPT, verb. To improve a product or service in ways that displaces an established one and surprises the market.
DISRUPT, adjective. (obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Dictionary definition

DISRUPT, verb. Make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages".
DISRUPT, verb. Throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process".
DISRUPT, verb. Interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats