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abruptly

[uh-bruhpt-lee]

adverb

  1. without warning; suddenly or unexpectedly.

    Not noticing that the car in front of him had stopped abruptly, he rear-ended it.

  2. in few words and without using any polite formulas; brusquely.

    My 14-year-old son was calling; as soon as I picked up, he asked abruptly, “How long till you get home?”

  3. steeply; sharply.

    At one end, the meadow flowed into a large valley; at the other, it dropped off abruptly in a cliff.



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Other 51Թ Forms

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Then, last week, Kennedy abruptly fired all members of a highly influential committee that advises the CDC on vaccine policy.

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She also said the Mexican restaurant next door abruptly closed its doors for two days, without explanation.

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Because she’s already been disappointed by somebody — as we find out in the date episode — that’s very important to her, and then abruptly went away to start another family.

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Border Patrol agents claimed they approached Gomez on a Los Angeles street because he “appeared startled and nervous when he saw the agents,” and abruptly changed course, “moving away from the agents at accelerating speeds.”

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But six months later, Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards in Delhi, and with her, the conversation abruptly died.

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