Disrupt vs Alter - What's the difference?
disrupt | alter |
To throw into confusion or disorder.
To interrupt or impede.
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To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
As adjectives the difference between disrupt and alter
is that disrupt is (obsolete) torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted while alter is .As a verb disrupt
is to throw into confusion or disorder.disrupt
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Verb
(en verb)Ian Sample
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- The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)