Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Broken off suddenly; interrupted.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
abrupt .
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Examples
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We rushed to the hospital where we learned my placenta was more than 50 percent abrupted.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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My placenta had abrupted, and was hanging on by 30%.
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We rushed to the hospital where we learned my placenta was more than 50 percent abrupted.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011
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It turned out that my placenta had abrupted, cutting Timothy off from the vital oxygen he needed.
Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010
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It turned out that my placenta had abrupted, cutting Timothy off from the vital oxygen he needed.
Devotional Stories for Mothers Susan M. Heim 2010
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Well, God has to be a man, because he denied me the experience of commenting on her bush and her monkey toes as her placenta abrupted in the middle of the night and it was a race to save her and the baby.
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I can tell you, I was abrupted (ph) by -- I thought I was in a dream.
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And as by any solid body, that it meets with in the way that is not penetrable by air, it is divided and abrupted, and yet neither slides off, or falls down, but stayeth there nevertheless: such must the diffusion in the mind be; not an effusion, but an extension.
Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
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The door-bell abrupted his words, clamoring shrilly.
The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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But his inferential analysis of this phase of the proceedings was summarily abrupted by that identical alarm.
The Black Bag Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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