disrupter

English

Alternative forms

disruptor

Etymology

From disrupt +‎ -er.

Noun

disrupter (plural disrupters)

Someone or something that disrupts.
- 2025 May 3, Harry Dempsey, David Keohane, “Can you run a company as a perfect free market?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
  [Kazuma] Sekiya comes from a bloodline of disrupters.
- 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.
(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

(economics) to disrupt an economic model by disruptive innovation

Conjugation

Conjugation of disrupter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	disrupter
present participle or gerund¹	simple	disruptant /di.sʁyp.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	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/
(simple tenses)	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
(compound tenses)	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).