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Disrupt vs Intervene - What's the difference?

disrupt | intervene |

In lang=en terms the difference between disrupt and intervene

is that disrupt is to interrupt or impede while intervene is to interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action.

As verbs the difference between disrupt and intervene

is that disrupt is to throw into confusion or disorder while intervene is (ambitransitive) to come between, or to be between, persons or things.

As an adjective disrupt

is (obsolete) torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

disrupt

English

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.

    Related terms

    * disruptable, disruptible * disruption * disruptive

    Adjective

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

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    intervene

    English

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To come between, or to be between, persons or things.
    • The Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa.
  • * De Quincey
    • self-sown woodlands of birch, alder, etc., intervening the different estates
  • To occur, fall, or come between, points of time, or events; as, an instant intervened between the flash and the report; nothing intervened (i.e. between the intention and the execution) to prevent the undertaking.
  • To interpose; as, to intervene to settle a quarrel; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action
  • (legal) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter.
    • (Abbott)

    Related terms

    * intervention