1. Marked by breaks or gaps
   "many routes are unsafe or disrupted"

1. Stop or prevent from continuing
   "The protesters disrupted the meeting";
   - interrupt, cut off
    
2. Throw into disorder
   "This event disrupted the orderly process"
    
3. Interfere in someone else's activity
   "Please don't disrupt me while I'm on the phone";
   - interrupt
    
4. [informal] (business) to radically change an industry or market by introducing a new product, service, or way of doing things
   "The ride-sharing app disrupted the traditional taxi industry"

See also: cut, discontinuous, noncontinuous

Type of: act, barge in [informal], break, break in, break off, butt in [informal], cease, chime in [informal], chip in [informal], cut in, discontinue, give up, lay off, move, put in, quit, stop, surcease [archaic]

Encyclopedia: Disrupted