abrupt | (adjective) surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner | - |
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(adjective) marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions | Synonyms: disconnected |
(adjective) dangerously steep | Synonyms: precipitous, sharp |
(adjective) exceedingly sudden and unexpected | - |
abruption | (noun) an instance of sudden interruption | Synonyms: breaking off |
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abruptly | (adverb) quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation | Synonyms: all of a sudden, dead, of a sudden, on the spur of the moment, short, suddenly |
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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 | (adjective) financially ruined | Synonyms: belly-up |
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(noun) someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts | Synonyms: insolvent |
(verb) reduce to bankruptcy | Synonyms: break, ruin, smash |
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 | - |
corrupt | (adjective) lacking in integrity | - |
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(adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: crooked |
(adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupted |
(adjective) touched by rot or decay | Synonyms: tainted |
(verb) alter from the original | Synonyms: spoil |
(verb) place under suspicion or cast doubt upon | Synonyms: cloud, defile, sully, taint |
(verb) make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence | Synonyms: bribe, buy, grease one's palms |
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality | Synonyms: debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate |
corrupted | (adjective) ruined in character or quality | Synonyms: debased, vitiated |
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(adjective) containing errors or alterations | Synonyms: corrupt |
corruptedly | (adverb) in a corrupt manner | Synonyms: corruptly |
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corruptibility | (noun) the capability of being corrupted | - |
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corruptible | (adjective) capable of being corrupted | Synonyms: bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal |
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corrupting | (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: contaminating |
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(adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: degrading |
(adjective) seducing into corrupt practices | - |
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 |
corruptive | (adjective) tending to corrupt or pervert | Synonyms: perversive, pestiferous |
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corruptly | (adverb) in a corrupt manner | Synonyms: corruptedly |
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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 | - |
disrupt | (verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: interrupt |
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(verb) throw into disorder | - |
(verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, interrupt |
disrupted | (adjective) marked by breaks or gaps | - |
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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 |
disruptive | (adjective) characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination | Synonyms: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent |
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disruptively | (adverb) in a disruptive manner | - |
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erupt | (verb) become active and spew forth lava and rocks | Synonyms: belch, extravasate |
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(verb) start abruptly | Synonyms: break out |
(verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, flare, flare up, irrupt |
(verb) become raw or open | Synonyms: break out, recrudesce |
(verb) break out | Synonyms: break through, come out, push through |
(verb) appear on the skin | - |
(verb) force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up | Synonyms: break, burst |
(verb) start to burn or burst into flames | Synonyms: catch fire, combust, conflagrate, ignite, take fire |
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 | - |
eruptive | (adjective) produced by the action of fire or intense heat | Synonyms: igneous |
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(adjective) producing or characterized by eruptions | - |
(adjective) actively spewing out lava | - |
incorrupt | (adjective) free of corruption or immorality | - |
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(adjective) not decayed | Synonyms: undecomposed |
incorrupted | (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, immaculate, impeccable |
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incorruptibility | (noun) the incapability of being corrupted | - |
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incorruptible | (adjective) incapable of being morally 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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(verb) terminate or end | Synonyms: break |
(verb) destroy the peace or tranquility of | Synonyms: disturb |
(verb) interfere in someone else's activity | Synonyms: disrupt |
(verb) make a break in | Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt |
interrupted | (adjective) intermittently stopping and starting | Synonyms: fitful, off-and-on |
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(adjective) discontinued temporarily | - |
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 |
irrupt | (verb) increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner | Synonyms: explode |
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(verb) erupt or intensify suddenly | Synonyms: break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up |
(verb) enter uninvited | Synonyms: intrude |
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 | - |
irruptive | (adjective) of igneous rock that has solidified beneath the earth's surface; granite or diorite or gabbro | Synonyms: plutonic |
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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 | - |
(verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly | Synonyms: bust, snap, tear |
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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uncorrupted | (adjective) (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased | Synonyms: undefiled |
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(adjective) not debased | - |
(adjective) not decayed or decomposed | Synonyms: unspoiled |
uninterrupted | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: continuous |
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(adjective) having undisturbed continuity | - |
uninterruptedly | (adverb) without interruption | - |
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