Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A breach; a bursting open; rupture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A breaking or bursting open;
breach ;rupture .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Also playing: "Dis-ruption" -- The Disrupter, wearing a "Pro-Life American" t-shirt and a leather Blackhawk gun holster, and The Real Disrupter, clad in a Juicy Couture "Anti-Healthcare Reform = Pro-Death" hoodie, hurl pithy insults at one another sure to be played and replayed for days on YouTube and the evening news.
Rabbi Jennifer Krause: For Heaven's Sake, See the Movie! 2009
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America is beginning to wonder if the larger corpo-ruption involved in our decline hasn't seeped into your cracks as well.
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He has promised to clean up cor-ruption and has made agricultural de-velopment a priority.
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Your soul did not descend to Hades, neither did your flesh see corruption.
Mary's tomb, a place of grace Fr Timothy Matkin 2006
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Zulu, who was present during the news conference said it appeared that he had become a victim of his own fight against cor! ruption in his department.
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At that moment, the doorbell rang, and without moving at all, Machida said, "An unfortunate but necessary inter - ruption."
Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995
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"Like dragon orbs," Raistlin snapped, irritated at the inter - ruption.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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"Like dragon orbs," Raistlin snapped, irritated at the inter - ruption.
Time of the Twins Weis, Margaret 1988
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However Gammage appeared to accept her inter - ruption as proper.
Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972
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On the other hand, decay is active in the heavens: we read of dim - ming heavenly bodies and ominous signs of their cor - ruption.
COSMIC FALL R. W. HEPBURN 1968
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