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How to spell disrupt
What it means: To interrupt or disturb an activity.
In a sentence: The cat tried to disrupt the dog's nap by tapping its tail.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as disrup or distrupt.
Same family: disruption, disruptive, disruptor, corrupt, interrupt. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Disrupt” comes from Latin roots: the prefix “dis-” meaning ‘apart’ and the root “rumpere” meaning ‘to break’. It literally started out meaning ‘to break apart,’ which is still very close to how we use it today in business and technology.
Patterns it uses: Prefixes keep every letter
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