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Disrupt vs Ravage - What's the difference?

disrupt | ravage |

As verbs the difference between disrupt and ravage

is that disrupt is to throw into confusion or disorder while ravage is .

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.

    Adjective

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

    English

    Verb

  • To devastate or destroy something.
  • To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something.
  • To wreak destruction.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Grievous damage or havoc.
  • * Addison
  • Would one think 'twere possible for love / To make such ravage in a noble soul?
  • Depredation or devastation
  • the ravage''' of a lion; the '''ravages''' of fire or tempest; the '''ravages of an army, or of time