disruptiveadjective
uk/dɪsˈrʌp.tɪv/us/dɪsˈrʌp.tɪv/C2 causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing as usual:
His teacher described him as a noisy, disruptive influence in class.
specialized business changing the traditional way that an industry operates, especially in a new and effective way:
disruptive technologies
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Upsetting and destabilizing
- bring
- bring sb down
- delegitimize
- destabilize
- dislocate
- disrupt
- loop
- make waves idiom
- put the skids under sth idiom
- rock
- rock the boat idiom
- scupper
- stir
- turn sth upside down idiom
- undercut
- undermine
- upset
- upside down
- wave
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disruptively
adverb uk/dɪsˈrʌp.tɪv.li/us/dɪsˈrʌp.tɪv.li/