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Sabotage vs Disrupt - What's the difference?

sabotage | disrupt |

As verbs the difference between sabotage and disrupt

is that sabotage is to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful while disrupt is to throw into confusion or disorder.

As a noun sabotage

is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.

As an adjective disrupt is

torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.

sabotage

Noun

(-)
  • A deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction.
  • (military) An act or acts with intent to injure, interfere with, or obstruct the national defense of a country by willfully injuring or destroying, or attempting to injure or destroy, any national defense or war materiel, premises, or utilities, to include human and natural resourcesJP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms ..
  • Verb

    (sabotag)
  • to deliberately destroy or damage something in order to prevent it from being successful
  • The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
  • Five minutes later, Southampton tried to mount their first attack, but Wickham sabotaged the move by tripping the rampaging Nathaniel Clyne, prompting the referee, Andre Marriner, to issue a yellow card. That was a lone blemish on an otherwise tidy start by Poyet’s team – until, that is, the 12th minute, when Vergini produced a candidate for the most ludicrous own goal in Premier League history.

    See also

    * terrorism

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    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.  ¶ 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.