Difference between Interrupt and Disturb

What is the difference between Interrupt and Disturb?

Interrupt as a verb is to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly. while Disturb as a verb is to confuse or irritate a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.

Interrupt

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly. To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An event that causes a computer to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition

Example sentence: Many of us actively working to interrupt racism continually hear complaints about the 'gotcha' culture of white anti-racism. There is a stereotype that we are looking for every incident we can find so we can spring out, point our fingers, and shout, 'You're a racist!'

Disturb

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to confuse or irritate a quiet, constant state or a calm, continuous flow, in particular: thoughts, actions or liquids.to divert, redirect, or alter by disturbing.to have a negative emotional impact; to cause emotional irritation or confusion.

Example sentence: I love the fact that little kids think I'm a witch. A mum might come over and say 'I'm sorry to disturb you, but my daughter thinks you're in 'Harry Potter.' I'll say 'That's cool' and take the kid aside and say, 'I'm a witch. If you don't listen to your mum, I'm going to haunt you!' It's brilliant. I can scare kids into doing their homework.

We hope you now know whether to use Interrupt or Disturb in your sentence.

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