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# disrupt

«disrupt» in Mova's school dictionary: **To stop something from going on normally by causing…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (disrupt, disrupts, disrupted, disrupting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To stop something from going on normally by causing trouble, noise or problems. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x1)
- Heavy snow disrupted the trains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x2)
- The noisy neighbours disrupted our sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x3)
- The fire alarm disrupted the assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x4)
- Floods disrupted the delivery of food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x5)
- Phones can disrupt your homework time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/#x6)
- (formal) Services may be disrupted due to engineering works. [tree →](https://md.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»).

### In the corpora

- [When a fight disrupts a class, the whole group may lose time or treats.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/375-what-fights-cost-at-school/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disrupt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disrupt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.