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disruptor

disruptor is the alternative spelling of disrupter.

Meaning of disrupter

Noun

disrupter (plural disrupters)

  1. Someone or something that disrupts.
    • [Kazuma] Sekiya comes from a bloodline of disrupters.2025 May 3, Harry Dempsey, David Keohane, “Can you run a company as a perfect free market?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19
  2. An energy weapon in the form of a pistol.

Forms of disruptor

pluraldisruptors

Origin of disruptor

From disrupt + -or.

Words formed from disruptor

Questions about disruptor

What is disruptor the alternative spelling of?
Disruptor is the alternative spelling of disrupter.

Words near disruptor in the dictionary

  1. disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
  2. disruptive selection
  3. disruptively
  4. disruptiveness
  5. disruptivity
  6. disruptor
  7. disruptors
  8. disrupts
  9. disrupture
  10. disruptures
  11. diss

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disruptor (page history and authors); disrupter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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