Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing or tending to cause breakage.
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- adjective obsolete
disruptive
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Examples
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As with the killdeer themselves, nature blessed the eggs with its gift of camouflage, what is normally called ruptive colors or ruptive patterns.
xenogere 2009
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In postulating natural freedom and natural equality, in providing a basis for the notion of merely conditional obedience to government, the Social Contract was used as a framework for a theory that had potentially dis - ruptive implications for any society with a predomi - nantly aristocratic power structure.
SOCIAL CONTRACT MICHAEL LEVIN 1968
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These little chaps construct a round, sub-leaf carton-home, as large as a golf ball, which carries out all the requirements of counter shading and of ruptive markings.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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Today, it seems, we're navigating through the e-ruptive fallout after a collision between the conflicting values of virtual networks and vertical bureaucracies.
Shooting at Bubbles 2009
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Nor were other great cities lefs votaries of cor - ruptive eafe •, — nor was even Sparta without infec - tion i~ Lyfandcr had brought home the gold of Perfia,
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