| word | disrupt |
|---|---|
| definition | verb If someone or something disrupts an event, system, or process, they cause difficulties that prevent it from continuing or operating in a normal way. Anti-war protesters disrupted the debate. The drought has severely disrupted agricultural production. To disrupt a market or a technology is to change the way it works by introducing new methods that are completely different to those that have been used in the past . If it succeeds, the technology has the potential to seriously disrupt the current market for medical devices. |
| inflections | disruptsdisruptingdisrupted |
| cefr-level | C1 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1
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