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abrupt

/uh-bruhpt/US // əˈbrʌpt //UK // (əˈbrʌpt) //

突然的,骤然,突然,突发

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : sudden or unexpected: an abrupt departure.
    • : curt or brusque in speech, manner, etc.: an abrupt reply.
    • : terminating or changing suddenly: an abrupt turn in a road.
    • : having many sudden changes from one subject to another; lacking in continuity or smoothness: an abrupt writing style.
    • : steep; precipitous: an abrupt descent.
    • : Botany. truncate.

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Examples

  • Chipmakers curbed production then ramped back up, though they still can't meet the industry's abrupt demand rebound.

  • Our best bet right now, based on the abrupt shift in model projections toward some meaningful precipitation, is that some wet snow will occur.

  • Jumping into a message without at least a “Hi” is abrupt and rude in email, but less so in a text.

  • The discovery, described January 16 in Cretaceous Research, suggests that mosasaurs were evolving experimental physical traits and lifestyles right up until their abrupt extinction 66 million years ago.

  • The retelling also seems to confirm long-standing rumors that Sean “Diddy” Combs — a frequent target of Williams — had a hand in Williams’s abrupt 1998 departure from the prominent hip-hop station.

  • In May 2009, however, the president had an abrupt change of heart.

  • Fans felt cheated by the abrupt end of a marriage seasons in the making (to Lady Mary, played by Michelle Dockery).

  • Biologist Mattson is alarmed by the abrupt 2008 rise in grizzly mortality from conflicts both with livestock and hunters.

  • King declined to elaborate on what that “immediate and abrupt action” would be, saying only that he had “a few ideas.”

  • The abrupt increase that night in U.S. sorties also stopped the town falling.

  • There was no vivacity in his putty-coloured features, but there were promptitude and decision in every abrupt gesture.

  • The intricacies and abrupt turns in the road separated him from his immediate followers.

  • She had begun to speak with an abrupt and almost fierce nervous irritation, but she recovered herself immediately.

  • Some of his violins possess a distinguishing mark in a rather abrupt rise in the centre.

  • The speech came to an abrupt end when, losing her balance, she fell to the ground, and lay there in drunken contentment.