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. David Bracht:

   There are very few people in the United States who don’t expect the lights to work when they turn them on, the kind of disruption this shift implies might test that.

2. Anupam Jena:

   One thing you could do would be to ensure that when key clinical decisions are being made, you have a disruption-free policy, so that doctors and nurses cannot be disrupted unless it’s an emergency.

3. Neera Tanden:

   The truth of it is Trump has shown... that there's a strong appetite for bold solutions to significant problems, trump's disruption, and many of his lunatic ideas, have widened the aperture of what's acceptable in the policy debates.

4. Illa Karatsoreos:

   We seem to be finally waking up to the realization that disrupted sleep and biological rhythms are associated with many health problems, including metabolic disruption, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.

5. Adam Winkler:

   It does seem like the pandemic has led to increasing desire for people to have firearms, the pandemic caused a major disruption in people's lives. And when people's lives are disrupted, they look for those things that can provide them security.