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{
"term": "disrupt",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "disrupt",
"heSheIt": "disrupts"
},
"pastSimple": "disrupted",
"pastParticiple": "disrupted",
"ingForm": "disrupting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to make it difficult for something to continue in the normal way",
"sensetop": "disrupt something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting."
},
{
"text": "Bus services will be disrupted tomorrow because of the bridge closure."
},
{
"text": "The bad weather has seriously disrupted supplies of food."
},
{
"text": "They warned that climate change could potentially disrupt economic activity."
},
{
"text": "I'm not going to let him disrupt my life any longer."
},
{
"text": "Public transport services are likely to be severely disrupted tomorrow."
},
{
"text": "The award ceremony was completely disrupted by a technicians' strike."
},
{
"text": "The refusal of the US to participate threatened to disrupt the negotiations."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["badly", "seriously", "severely"],
"verb + disrupt": ["threaten to", "attempt to", "be designed to"],
"phrases": ["an attempt to disrupt something"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to cause significant change in an industry or market by means of innovation (= new ideas or methods)",
"sensetop": "disrupt something",
"labels": "(business)",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Our radical new printing technology is disrupting traditional manufacturing."
}
],
"topics": ["Business"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌpt/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupt__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌpts/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupts__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌptɪd/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupted__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌpt/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupt__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌpts/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupts__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌptɪd/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupted__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪsˈrʌptɪŋ/",
"audio": "di/disrupt/disrupting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin disrupt- ‘broken apart’, from the verb disrumpere."
}