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(adj)
Occurring quickly with little or no warning or expectation; instantly.
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Steep, like a precipice
That is no longer connected.
Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut or pierce easily; not dull, obtuse, or rounded.
Impolite; lacking consideration for others.
Of a near-vertical gradient; of a slope, surface, curve, etc. that proceeds upward at an angle near vertical.
(music) Describing a passage having this mark.
Very swift or quick.
(informal, attributive) Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
(British, Australia and New Zealand, slang) Expensive-looking and demanding attention; stylish; showy.
(of a person) Strong, sturdy, well-built.
Causing surprise.
Violent, destructive and cruel.
Having a strong or far-reaching effect; extreme, severe.
Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
(n)
Something unexpected.
Savagely violent, vicious, ruthless, or cruel, often in an unintelligent manner.
Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.
Not smooth; uneven.
Bestial; lacking human sensibility
Brutal; cruel; fierce; ferocious; savage; pitiless, without intelligence or reason.
Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
Fierce and ferocious.
Uncivilized, uncultured.
of or relating to a barbarian; uncivilized, uncultured or uncouth
Not expected, anticipated or foreseen.
Lacking in refinement or civility; bad-mannered; discourteous.
Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
At an inopportune time.
Proceeding without deviation or interruption.
Of or relating to the drama.
(of a thing) Having a low temperature.
(by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
Favoring fundamental change, or change at the root cause of a matter.
Fast; quick; rapid.
Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time.
Acting or done in haste; hurried or too quick; speedy due to having little time.
Done in a hurry; rushed.
Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so; rapid; fast.
(by extension) Of speech or style: brief, concise, to the point.
Brief or terse, especially to the point of being rude.
(v)
(transitive) To make something happen suddenly and quickly.
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action.
Likely to startle; surprising; shocking.
Lean meat cured and preserved by cutting into thin strips and air-drying in the sun.
(informal) Rapid and without delay.
The act of breaking away from something.
An abridgement or summary of a longer publication.
(transitive) To throw into confusion or disorder.
(of a piece of flesh or body part) Having been torn off, as in an avulsion.
Separated, cut off or broken apart.
(grammar) The ablative case.
Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
Destroyed; (loosely) broken beyond repair.
(heraldry) Having the appearance of being forcibly torn off, with parts left jagged or uneven, as distinguished from couped.
Torn apart.
(rare) That prescinds; cutting off; abstracting.
(botany) Bent sharply back, so as to appear broken.
That which abducts.
(figurative, by extension) Having been removed from a familiar circumstance, especially suddenly and unwillingly.
(transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form.
(obsolete) That has been cast off or rejected.
(obsolete) Set off, at a distance; remote.
A piece that has been cut off of a larger piece when not needed; surplus.
Tending or designed to abrogate.
(transitive) To wear down; rub clean; smoothen; abrade.
(transitive) To divert the attention of.
Obsolete form of divorced. [Cut off, or separated.]
To act as a broker; to transact business for another; synonym of broker.
Separated; taken asunder.
Having run away; escaped; fugitive; fleeting.
(adv)
Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
One who abdicates.
(in combination) Having some specific type of trunk.
No longer in working order; broken.
Free from a duty, obligation, rule, law, etc.
Driving or thrusting away; averting.
To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
To estrange; to withdraw affections or attention from; to make indifferent or averse, where love or friendship before subsisted.
Obsolete form of detached. [Not physically attached; separated from something to which it could connect.]
A strip or sheet of paper, plastic film, etc., that is designed to be removed by tearing or pulling off.
Cut or shortened, especially of a literary work.
(Late Modern, sciences, obsolete) Subtractive or tending to diminish.
allowed to drop or fall.
To restrain within boundaries; to limit; to confine
Having undergone stripping; laid bare.
(law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation.
Fragmented; in separate pieces.
(obsolete) Lying or situated apart.
Exhausted; overcome; worn out.
Having been renounced, forsworn or rejected.
(intransitive, idiomatic, Of a group of people) Cease to be together, break apart from the group.
coming or casting off; retiring, shedding, detaching or emitting
Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
(by extension) Taken apart, destroyed or (figurative) distorted beyond recognition.
(obsolete) Cut; severed.