Verb

(en verb)

To throw into confusion or disorder.

To interrupt or impede.

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To improve a product or service in ways that displaces an established one and surprises the market.

The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones.

Verb

(en verb)

To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

* Prior

Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?

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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.

To molest; to harm; to injure.

to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade

* Evelyn

tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them