disrupt

Other forms of disrupt

past tense

disrupted·

present participle

disrupting·

third person

disrupts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disrupt

What does disrupt mean?

disrupt means "make a break in". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disrupt?

disrupt has 2 syllables: dis-rupt. The stress falls on "rupt". In IPA it is /dɪsˈɹʌpt/.

What is another word for disrupt?

Close synonyms include interrupt, break up, cut off, interrupt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disrupt a common word?

disrupt is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disrupt?

1 word rhymes with disrupt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.