abruptedadj.

1597 R. Parry Sinetes Passions sig. B4^v Applaude their praise, record my deepe despaire, With shrill, short sound, of new abrupted ayer.

1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. G3^v Did not I note your darke abrupted ends Of words halfe spoke? your well's, if all were knowne?

1639 W. Lower Phaenix in her Flames iii. i My teares, my blushes, my abrupted sighes, My broken speeches, my dejected eyes.

1647 A. Brewer Countrie Girle sig. L With many sighes, with many teares, Many abrupted sillables, extolling His noble worth and goodnesse.

1750 W. Douglass Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. II. ix. 34 Thus it was in the latter End of the Reign of Charles II. and in the short abrupted Reign of James II.

1799 R. Kirwan Geol. Ess. 94 The hollows that interceded the abrupted masses.

1840 J. H. Agnew & O. G. Ebbeke tr. G. B. Winer Gram. Idioms Greek Lang. New Test. App. 400 Such a long parenthesis consisting of several clauses without any external re-annexation of the abrupted principal sentence is not very probable.

1937 ‘M. Innes’ Hamlet, Revenge! ii. ii. 113 The scene was reminiscent of a species of abrupted revelry with which he was professionally familiar.

1996 C. Ricks Ess. in Appreciation (1998) 183 From one point of view Hallam Tennyson's abrupted life at Cambridge could hardly have undergone a greater change.

1972 J. Sophian Pregnancy Nephropathy II. xiv. 375 From the abrupted placenta and from the altered blood in the glomerulus, many substances may be released into the circulation.

1982 Acta Chirurgiae Plasticae 24 213 (title) Replantation of abrupted skin.

1998 N.Y. Times 5 Apr. 67 ‘The actual birth was a medical drama I couldn't possibly recount. I knew it was C-section. Emergency. But I had more—an abrupted placenta, meaning that it was pulling away from the uterine wall, away from the baby.’