disrupt

Meaning

Verb

1. To throw into confusion or disorder.
2. To interrupt or impede.
3. To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.

Adj

Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

Synonyms

interrupt

upset

confuse

disturb

shatter

disorganize

damage

break up

wreck

rupture

ruin

destroy

disorder

disarrange

weaken

break

cause disorder

cut off

impair

spoil

blight

vandalize

put in disorder

destruct

mar

confused

😕

mess

mess up

agitate

stir up

helter-skelter

dislocate

tangle

demolish

disrupted

mix up

disrupting

undermine

crush

dissolve

do away with

efface

embroil

entangle

erase

flummox

fluster

fold

fox

🦊

fuddle

go

heterodyne

immingle

immix

interfere

intermix

involve

jumble

kill

🔪🩸👤

litter

make worse

mat

meld

mingle

mishandle

mix

mix in

motley

muck up

mud

murder

muss

obfuscate

obscure

paddle

perturb

puddle

pulverize

randomise

ravage

ravel

resolve

rile

rive

roil

rumple

scramble

sever

shake up

shut off

smash

snarl

sophisticate

stave

step on

stir

strike

stump

sully

thwart

toss

total

touch

stop

🛑

tussle

unhinge

unmake

clutter up

detract from

dinge

louse up

stir up trouble

throw into disorder

throw together

turn the tables

turn upside down

truncate

abolish

addle

adulterate

aggravate

amputate

bedevil

bewilder

blend

bobble

bollix

bollocks

breach

break through

break with

cancel

cease

clip

clutter

commingle

commix

compound

concoct

confect

confound

convulse

cripple

cut

cut short

derange

devastate

disarray

discombobulate

disconnect

discontinue

disfigure

dishevel

disintegrate

disorganise

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪsˈɹʌpt/

Etymology

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