Synonyms for disruption
dis·rup·tion

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1. disruption

   Synonyms:
   disintegration, discord, dissension, a breaking up, separation, alienation, hostility

   Antonyms:
   union, amalgamation, reconciliation

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1. break, interruption, disruption, gapnoun

   an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

   "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"

   Synonyms:
   disturbance, gap, commotion, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, crack, interruption, rift, intermission, break of serve, severance, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, flutter, hoo-hah, geological fault, hurly burly, spread, col, to-do, break, good luck, breaking, open frame, gaolbreak, dislocation, breach, breakage, perturbation, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, kerfuffle, opening, rupture, hoo-ha, prison-breaking

2. disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfufflenoun

   a disorderly outburst or tumult

   "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"

   Synonyms:
   disturbance, gap, flapping, flicker, ruction, commotion, folie, interruption, rumpus, mental disorder, whirl, din, flutter, hoo-hah, mental disturbance, hurly burly, flap, dislocation, ruffle, break, waver, affray, fluttering, perturbation, upset, noise, tumult, ruckus, kerfuffle, hoo-ha, to-do, psychological disorder, interference, fray

3. dislocation, disruptionnoun

   an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity

   Synonyms:
   commotion, to-do, perturbation, breakdown, kerfuffle, hurly burly, dislocation, flutter, hoo-ha, disturbance, break, interruption, hoo-hah, gap

4. disruption, perturbationnoun

   the act of causing disorder

   Synonyms:
   commotion, fluster, to-do, perturbation, upset, hurly burly, dislocation, flutter, hoo-ha, gap, disturbance, break, interruption, hoo-hah, kerfuffle

Matched Categories

1. • Disorder
   • Disturbance
   • Interruption

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1. disruptionnoun

   Synonyms:
   breach, rent, rupture, burst, breaking asunder

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1. List of paraphrases for "disruption":

   disturbance, interruption, disorganization, perturbation, outage, dislocation, blackout, disorder, adjournment, upheaval, interrupt, interrupts, interruptions, turmoil, blackouts, break, distortion, rupture, breakdown, alteration, turbulence, unrest, inconvenience, discontinuation, nuisance, discontinuance, interference, termination

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How to use disruption in a sentence?

1. Air Canada:

   This is not a labor disruption between the airlines and their fueling company, this is a labor disruption at Consolidated Aviation Fueling Services which is affecting all airlines at Pearson.

2. Jason Bordoff:

   Oil prices will jump on this attack, and if the disruption to Saudi production is prolonged, an SPR release ... seems likely and sensible.

3. Nicholas Rasmussen:

   The volume and diversity of recruits flowing to and from the conflict areas make disruption especially challenging, there is no single pipeline for foreign fighter travel into and out of Syria. Violent extremists take different routes, including land, air, and sea.

4. Mark Schumacher:

   Domestically-made furniture also uses components that are imported. Those pieces are caught in these delays, we're caught in this cycle of disruption. Every time we take two steps forward, it's two steps back.

5. Michael Osterholm:

   Think how much pain, suffering, death and economic disruption we've had in getting from 5% to 15% of the population infected and hopefully protected, wake up, world. Do not believe the rhetoric that says this is going to go away.