Usually means: Sudden, unexpected change or end.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. abrupt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abrupt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abrupt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abrupt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abrupt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abrupt, abrupt: Wordnik
  7. abrupt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abrupt: Wiktionary
  9. abrupt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abrupt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abrupt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Abrupt, abrupt: Dictionary.com
  13. abrupt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. abrupt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Abrupt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. abrupt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. abrupt: Rhymezone
  18. abrupt, abrupt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. abrupt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. abrupt: Free Dictionary
  21. abrupt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. abrupt: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. abrupt: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. abrupt: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrupt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  1. Abrupt: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See abrupting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
adjective:  Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
adjective:  Curt in manner.
adjective:  Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Broken off.
adjective:  Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
adjective:  (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To tear off or asunder.
verb:  To interrupt suddenly.
noun:  (poetic) Something which is abrupt; an abyss.

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