{
    "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."
}