disrupts
- 1Third-person singular simple present of disrupt.
A single stalled vehicle disrupts traffic across the entire downtown core.
The new scheduling policy disrupts routines that the staff had relied on for years.
Note
This is the -s form that a singular subject calls for. In every meaning it takes a direct object, so something is always disrupted: a meeting thrown into disorder, a service interrupted, or, in business use, an established product displaced by a newcomer that surprises the market. The ending belongs to the verb alone. Disrupt once also served as an adjective meaning "torn asunder," and that obsolete use had no -s form.
disrupts is a form of disrupt
disrupt, verb: To interrupt the normal progress of something or get in its way. Full entry
- Forms
- disruptdisrupts he/she/itdisrupting -ing formdisrupted past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- disrupt → disrupts: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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