disrupter

English

Alternative forms

• disruptor

Etymology

From disrupt +‎ -er.

Noun

disrupter (plural disrupters)

1. Someone or something that disrupts.
   • 2025 May 24, Raphael Abraham, “In Godard we trust”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 16:

     This is [Jean-Luc] Godard the disrupter (played by Guillaume Marbeck), shooting guerilla-style in Paris without lights, permits and often without a script.

2. (science fiction) An energy weapon in the form of a pistol.

Translations

someone or something that disrupts

• French: perturbateur (fr) m
• Serbo-Croatian: disruptor m
• Spanish: disruptor m

Anagrams

• stirred up, stirruped, upstirred

French

Etymology

From English disrupt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.sʁyp.te/

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Verb

disrupter

1. (economics) to disrupt an economic model by disruptive innovation

Conjugation

Conjugation of disrupter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	disrupter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	disruptant /di.sʁyp.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		disrupté /di.sʁyp.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	disrupte /di.sʁypt/	disruptes /di.sʁypt/	disrupte /di.sʁypt/	disruptons /di.sʁyp.tɔ̃/	disruptez /di.sʁyp.te/	disruptent /di.sʁypt/
	imperfect	disruptais /di.sʁyp.tɛ/	disruptais /di.sʁyp.tɛ/	disruptait /di.sʁyp.tɛ/	disruptions /di.sʁyp.tjɔ̃/	disruptiez /di.sʁyp.tje/	disruptaient /di.sʁyp.tɛ/
	past historic2	disruptai /di.sʁyp.te/	disruptas /di.sʁyp.ta/	disrupta /di.sʁyp.ta/	disruptâmes /di.sʁyp.tam/	disruptâtes /di.sʁyp.tat/	disruptèrent /di.sʁyp.tɛʁ/
	future	disrupterai /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁe/	disrupteras /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁa/	disruptera /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁa/	disrupterons /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁɔ̃/	disrupterez /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁe/	disrupteront /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	disrupterais /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁɛ/	disrupterais /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁɛ/	disrupterait /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁɛ/	disrupterions /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	disrupteriez /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁje/	disrupteraient /di.sʁyp.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	disrupte /di.sʁypt/	disruptes /di.sʁypt/	disrupte /di.sʁypt/	disruptions /di.sʁyp.tjɔ̃/	disruptiez /di.sʁyp.tje/	disruptent /di.sʁypt/
	imperfect2	disruptasse /di.sʁyp.tas/	disruptasses /di.sʁyp.tas/	disruptât /di.sʁyp.ta/	disruptassions /di.sʁyp.ta.sjɔ̃/	disruptassiez /di.sʁyp.ta.sje/	disruptassent /di.sʁyp.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	disrupte /di.sʁypt/	—	disruptons /di.sʁyp.tɔ̃/	disruptez /di.sʁyp.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).