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# disrupt

verb (disrupt, disrupts, disrupted, disrupting)

«disrupt» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To stop something from going on normally by causing trouble, noise or problems. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#m1)
2. To change the way something works in a big, new way, such as a new invention disrupting an industry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#m2)

### In the lessons

In school, behaviour that disrupts the lesson stops others learning. In everyday life and news, snow, strikes and roadworks disrupt travel; storms disrupt power. Phrases: «disrupt the class», «disrupt travel», «disrupt sleep», «be disrupted by».

### Examples

- Please don't disrupt the lesson by talking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x1)
- Heavy snow disrupted the trains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x2)
- The noisy neighbours disrupted our sleep. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x3)
- The fire alarm disrupted the assembly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x4)
- Floods disrupted the delivery of food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x5)
- Phones can disrupt your homework time. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x6)
- (formal) Services may be disrupted due to engineering works. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x7)

### Note

Noun: «disruption»; adjective: «disruptive» (a disruptive pupil). Spelled with -rupt (meaning break, as in «erupt», «interrupt»).

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «disrupt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«disrupt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/disrupt.html) on Mova free.