disrupting

Definitions

Interrupting the normal progress or activity of an event, process, or system.

Drastically altering or destroying the structure of a market or industry through innovation.

Examples

The loud construction noise was disrupting my ability to focus on the report.

New technologies are constantly disrupting traditional business models across the globe.

Synonyms

disturbing interrupting disordering upsetting interfering breaking displacing

Antonyms

organizing stabilizing maintaining ordering preserving supporting calming