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Disrupted vs Interrupted - What's the difference?

disrupted | interrupted |

As verbs the difference between disrupted and interrupted

is that disrupted is past tense of disrupt while interrupted is past tense of interrupt.

As an adjective disrupted

is subject to disruption.

disrupted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (disrupt)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subject to disruption.
  • interrupted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (interrupt)

  • interrupt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Do not interrupt me in my course.
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  • To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
  • The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
  • (computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.
  • Antonyms

    * continue * resume

    Noun

    (wikipedia interrupt) (en noun)
  • (computing) An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition
  • The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

    Derived terms

    * hardware interrupt * interrupt handler * non-maskable interrupt, NMI * software interrupt