| 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 |
| antenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: premarital, prenuptial |
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| 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 | - |
| groupthink | (noun) decision making by a group (especially in a manner that discourages creativity or individual responsibility) | - |
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| 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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| nuptial | (adjective) of or relating to a wedding | Synonyms: bridal, spousal |
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| nuptials | (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, wedding, wedding ceremony |
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| postnuptial | (adjective) relating to events after a marriage | - |
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| prenuptial | (adjective) relating to events before a marriage | Synonyms: antenuptial, premarital |
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| reuptake | (noun) a process of using up or consuming again | Synonyms: re-uptake |
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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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| uptake | (noun) the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | Synonyms: consumption, ingestion, intake |
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| (noun) a process of taking up or using up or consuming | - |
| upthrow | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrust |
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| upthrust | (noun) (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation (as in the process of mountain building) | Synonyms: upheaval, uplift, upthrow |
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| uptick | (noun) a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction | - |
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| uptight | (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive |
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| uptime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is functioning and available for use | - |
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| uptown | (adjective) of or located in the upper part of a town | - |
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| (noun) a residential part of town away from the central commercial district | - |
| (adverb) toward or in the upper part of town | - |
| upturn | (noun) an upward movement or trend as in business activity | - |
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| upturned | (adjective) (used of noses) turned up at the end | Synonyms: retrousse, tip-tilted |
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| (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upset |
| voluptuary | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuous |
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| (noun) a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses | Synonyms: sybarite |
| voluptuous | (adjective) displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses | Synonyms: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary |
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| (adjective) having strong sexual appeal | Synonyms: juicy, luscious, lush, red-hot, toothsome |
| (adjective) (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves | Synonyms: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, well-endowed |
| voluptuously | (adverb) in an indulgently voluptuous manner | - |
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| (adverb) in a shapely and voluptuous manner | - |
| voluptuousness | (noun) the quality of having a well-rounded body | Synonyms: curvaceousness, shapeliness |
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| (noun) the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses | Synonyms: lushness, luxuriance |
| (noun) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting) | Synonyms: hot stuff |