Meanings (ES + gloss)
abrupto • repentino • súbito
Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
The cause of your abrupt departure.
The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
abrupto • brusco • cortante
Curt in manner.
With no great disparity between them in point of years, they were, in every other respect, as unlike and far removed from each other as two men could well be. The one was soft-spok…
abrupto • brusco
Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
abrupto • brusco
Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
The mazy-running brook Forms a deep pool; this bank abrupt and high.
To the north the towering scree-strewn slopes of Saddleback begin to draw nearer as we start the abrupt descent towards Keswick.
abrupto
Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
Root oblong, blackish, nearly the thickness of the little finger, often growing obliquely; abrupt at the lower end, so as to appear as if bitten off, furnished with long whitish fi…
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