Synonyms of the word

disruption

• n. An interruption to the regular flow or sequence of something.
• n. A continuing act of disorder.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

commotion

• n. A state of turbulent motion.
• n. An agitated disturbance or a hubbub.
• n. (euphemistic) Sexual excitement.

delay

• n. A period of time before an event occurs; the act of delaying; procrastination; lingering inactivity.
• v. To put off until a later time; to defer.
• v. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time.
• v. (obsolete) To allay; to temper.
• v. (obsolete) To dilute, temper.
• v. (obsolete) To assuage, quench, allay.

dislocation

• n. The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
• n. (geology) The displacement of parts of rocks or portions of strata from the situation which they originally…
• n. The act of dislocating, or putting out of joint; also, the condition of being thus displaced.
• n. (materials) A linear defect in a crystal lattice. Because dislocations can shift within the crystal lattice,…
• n. (grammar) A sentence structure in which a constituent that could otherwise be either an argument or an…

disorder

• n. Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
• n. A disturbance of civic peace or of public order.
• n. (medicine, countable) A physical or psychical malfunction.
• v. (transitive) To throw into a state of disorder.
• v. (transitive) To knock out of order or sequence.

disturbance

• n. The act of disturbing, being disturbed.
• n. Something that disturbs.
• n. A noisy commotion that causes a hubbub or interruption.
• n. An interruption of that which is normal or regular.
• n. (psychology) A serious mental imbalance or illness.

flutter

• v. (intransitive) To flap or wave quickly but irregularly.
• v. (intransitive, of a winged animal) To flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the…
• v. (transitive) To cause something to flap.
• v. (transitive) To drive into disorder; to throw into confusion.
• n. The act of fluttering; quick and irregular motion.
• n. A state of agitation.
• n. An abnormal rapid pulsation of the heart.
• n. (Britain) A small bet or risky investment.
• n. (audio, electronics) The rapid variation of signal parameters, such as amplitude, phase, and frequency.

gap

• n. An opening in anything made by breaking or parting.
• n. An opening allowing passage or entrance.
• n. An opening that implies a breach or defect.
• n. A vacant space or time.
• n. A hiatus.
• n. A mountain or hill pass.
• n. (Sussex) A sheltered area of coast between two cliffs (mostly restricted to place names).
• n. (baseball) The regions between the outfielders.
• n. (Australia, for a medical or pharmacy item) The shortfall between the amount the medical insurer will…
• n. (Australia) (usually written as "the gap") The disparity between the indigenous and non-indigenous communities…
• n. (genetics) An unsequenced region in a sequence alignment.
• v. (transitive) To notch, as a sword or knife.
• v. (transitive) To make an opening in; to breach.
• v. (transitive) To check the size of a gap.
• n. Alternative form of gup (elected head of a gewog in Bhutan).

holdup

• n. Alternative spelling of hold-up.

hoo-ha

• n. A fuss, uproar, commotion or stir; hype; brouhaha, hullabaloo.
• n. (slang, euphemistic) vagina, vulva.

hoo-hah

• n. Alternative spelling of hoo-ha (fuss, uproar).
• n. Alternative spelling of hoo-ha (vagina).

interruption

• n. The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
• n. A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.

kerfuffle

• n. (chiefly Britain, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult.
• v. (chiefly Britain, informal) To make a disorderly outburst or commotion.

perturbation

• n. (uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed.
• n. (countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological…
• n. (countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies.

to-do

• n. (archaic) Ado.
• n. A task that has been noted as one that must be completed, especially on a list.
• n. A fuss made over something, commotion.