The difference between Disrupt and Upset
When used as verbs, disrupt means to throw into confusion or disorder, whereas upset means to make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
When used as adjectives, disrupt means torn off or torn asunder, whereas upset means angry, distressed or unhappy.
Upset is also noun with the meaning: disturbance or disruption.
check bellow for the other definitions of Disrupt and Upset
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Disrupt as a verb (transitive):
To throw into confusion or disorder.
Examples:
"Hecklers disrupted the man's speech."
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Disrupt as a verb (transitive):
To interrupt or impede.
Examples:
"Work on the tunnel was disrupted by a strike."
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Disrupt as a verb (transitive):
To improve a product or service in ways that displace an established one and surprise the market.
Examples:
"The internet makes it easier for leaner businesses to disrupt the larger and more unwieldy ones."
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Disrupt as an adjective (obsolete):
Torn off or torn asunder; severed; disrupted.
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Upset as an adjective (of a person):
Angry, distressed or unhappy.
Examples:
"He was upset when she refused his friendship."
"My children often get upset with their classmates."
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Upset as an adjective (of a [[stomach]] or gastrointestinal tract, referred to as '''stomach'''):
Feeling unwell, nauseated, or ready to vomit.
Examples:
"His stomach was upset, so he didn't want to move."
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Upset as a noun (uncountable):
Disturbance or disruption.
Examples:
"My late arrival caused the professor considerable upset."
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Upset as a noun (countable, sports, politics):
An unexpected victory of a competitor or candidate that was not favored to win.
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Upset as a noun (automobile insurance):
An overturn.
Examples:
"collision and upset": impact with another object or an overturn for whatever reason."
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Upset as a noun:
An upset stomach.
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Upset as a noun (mathematics):
An upper set; a subset (X,≤) of a partially ordered set with the property that, if x is in U and x≤y, then y is in U.
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To make (a person) angry, distressed, or unhappy.
Examples:
"I’m sure the bad news will upset him, but he needs to know."
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To disturb, disrupt or adversely alter (something).
Examples:
"Introducing a foreign species can upset the ecological balance."
"The fatty meat upset his stomach."
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To tip or overturn (something).
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Upset as a verb (transitive):
To defeat unexpectedly.
Examples:
"Truman upset Dewey in the 1948 US presidential election."
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Upset as a verb (intransitive):
To be upset or knocked over.
Examples:
"The carriage upset when the horse bolted."
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Upset as a verb (obsolete):
To set up; to put upright.
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Upset as a verb:
To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.
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Upset as a verb:
To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends.