Synonym: curt, hasty, short, sudden, unexpected. Similar words: interrupt, corruption, brush, fabric, brutal, at home and abroad, tear up, clear up. Meaning: [ə'brʌpt] adj. 1. marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions 2. exceedingly sudden and unexpected 3. extremely steep 4. surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner.
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91) Despite the three-hour length, the descent of Kathy Bates's character into madness is so abrupt as to be risible.
92) To avoid this looking too plain and the break-off rows being very abrupt try using a small pattern to divide the colours.
93) Where the soil is different there are abrupt changes in the use which people have made of the land.
94) Meanwhile Friday's retail sales figures allayed some concerns about the prospect of an abrupt economic landing.
95) He believed that abrupt changes on the earth's surface were responsible for killing off all the species over a wide area.
96) But the increasingly nasty dispute came to an abrupt end as the government announced a settlement.
97) The most plausible explanation of this observation is an abrupt, massive, global acidification of rainwater.
98) But the dream came to an abrupt end when Peter Mott came down with polio.
99) Everybody was so abrupt,(www.Sentencedict.com) as if they didn't believe him.
100) In view of the Duchess of York's abrupt departure from the royal family in March this year it was a prudent decision.
101) The platoon commanders barked their orders to dismount and the vehicles came to an abrupt standstill amongst the enemy.
102) Braun even passed that test, although the transition was so abrupt that he left some of us leaning the wrong way.
103) But all their exploits and explorations suddenly came to an abrupt end.
104) Chapter 31 Nora's abrupt departure had, at first, the desired effect upon John.
105) Such a relatively abrupt change in the rate of increase of population size has become known as demographic transition.
106) For a. brief moment he regretted having been so abrupt with the caller.
107) The transformation from the latter part of preoperational thought to early concrete operational thought is not an abrupt one.
108) The contrast for the eleven-year-old with the more informal and less specialist work of the primary school was sharp and abrupt.
109) Discussing it afterwards, many people said it was too abrupt, but Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel defended it.
110) A border is a dividing line marking an abrupt shift between two separate, sometimes antagonistic, entities.
111) It was the abrupt way he pulled up running out a ball in Game 2 that alerted everyone there was a problem.
112) There are very few, if any, abrupt breaks in climate, only steeper and less steep climatic gradients.
113) Her abrupt removal from the campus sparked student sit-ins and early morning pickets in front of the school.
114) How does abrupt sex amenorrhoea do the friend?
115) His manner of speaking was quite abrupt.
116) Is he always so changeful and abrupt?
117) Abrupt and curt in manner or speech; discourteously blunt.
118) Fukuda's abrupt resignation sent shockwaves across the nation.
119) Such aneurismal bleeding usually has abrupt onset and high risk of rebleeding.
120) His attitude underwent an abrupt transition , ie changed suddenly.
More similar words: interrupt, corruption, brush, fabric, brutal, at home and abroad, tear up, clear up, cover up, cheer up, up to, limber up, enter upon, up to now, come up to, add up to, face up to, lead up to, stand up to, up to date, live up to, measure up to.