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Disruptive vs Ravaging - What's the difference?

disruptive | ravaging |

As an adjective disruptive

is causing disruption or unrest.

As a verb ravaging is

present participle of ravage.

As a noun ravaging is

the act by which something is ravaged.

disruptive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Causing disruption or unrest.
    • Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
  • Causing major change, as in a market.
  • * 2005 , Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide (page 222)
    • companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.

    ravaging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is ravaged.
  • * Daniel Defoe, Memoirs of a Cavalier
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