| abruption | (noun) an instance of sudden interruption | Synonyms: breaking off |
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| abruptness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: precipitousness, steepness |
| (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
| bankrupt | (noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: insolvent |
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| bankruptcy | (noun) a legal process intended to insure equality among the creditors of a corporation declared to be insolvent | - |
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| (noun) inability to discharge all your debts as they come due | Synonyms: failure |
| (noun) a state of complete lack of some abstract property | - |
| corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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| corruption | (noun) destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity | Synonyms: subversion |
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| (noun) inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony) | - |
| (noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain | Synonyms: corruptness |
| (noun) moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles | Synonyms: degeneracy, depravation, depravity, putrefaction |
| (noun) decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation) | - |
| (noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: putrescence, putridness, rottenness |
| corruptness | (noun) lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain | Synonyms: corruption |
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| (noun) the state of being corrupt | - |
| disruption | (noun) the act of causing disorder | Synonyms: perturbation |
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| (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, gap, interruption |
| (noun) an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity | Synonyms: dislocation |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| eruption | (noun) the sudden occurrence of a violent discharge of steam and volcanic material | Synonyms: volcanic eruption |
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| (noun) a sudden very loud noise | Synonyms: bam, bang, blast, clap |
| (noun) the emergence of a tooth as it breaks through the gum | - |
| (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: irruption, outbreak |
| (noun) (of volcanoes) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed) | Synonyms: eructation, extravasation |
| (noun) symptom consisting of a breaking out and becoming visible | - |
| incorruptibility | (noun) the incapability of being corrupted | - |
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| incorruption | (noun) characterized by integrity or probity | Synonyms: incorruptness |
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| incorruptness | (noun) characterized by integrity or probity | Synonyms: incorruption |
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| interrupt | (noun) a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out | - |
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| interrupter | (noun) a device for automatically interrupting an electric current | - |
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| interruption | (noun) an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity | Synonyms: break, disruption, gap |
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| (noun) some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity | Synonyms: break |
| (noun) a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something | Synonyms: break, intermission, pause, suspension |
| irruption | (noun) a sudden violent entrance; a bursting in | - |
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| (noun) a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | Synonyms: eruption, outbreak |
| (noun) a sudden sharp increase in the relative numbers of a population | - |
| rupture | (noun) the act of making a sudden noisy break | - |
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| (noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance |
| (noun) state of being torn or burst open | - |
| rupturewort | (noun) common prostrate Old World herb often used as a ground cover; formerly reputed to cure ruptures | Synonyms: Hernaria glabra |
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