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Damage vs Disrupt - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between damage and disrupt

is that damage is to impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction while disrupt is to throw into confusion or disorder.

As a noun damage

is injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.

As an adjective disrupt is

torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

damage

English

(wikipedia damage)

Noun

  • Injury or harm; the condition or measure of something not being intact.
  • The storm did a lot of damage to the area.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Great errors and absurdities many commit for want of a friend to tell them of them, to the great damage both of their fame and fortune.
  • (slang) Cost or expense.
  • "What's the damage ?" he asked the waiter.

    Verb

    (damag)
  • To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction.
  • Be careful not to damage any of the fragile items while unpacking them.
  • * Clarendon
  • He came up to the English admiral and gave him a broadside, with which he killed many of his men and damaged the ship.

    disrupt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw into confusion or disorder.
  • To interrupt or impede.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Ian Sample
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=34, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains , passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.  ΒΆ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
  • 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.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.