All 9 Uses of
abrupt
in
1984 by Orwell
- Winston turned round abruptly.
p. 5..1abruptly = suddenly and unexpectedly
- Then a door banged, seeming to cut off the smell as abruptly as though it had been a sound.
p. 81..8abruptly = suddenly
- The strident voices stopped abruptly.
p. 83..3
- At this moment his train of thought stopped abruptly.
p. 93..5
- As they drifted down the crowded pavements, not quite abreast and never looking at one another, they carried on a curious, intermittent conversation which flicked on and off like the beams of a lighthouse, suddenly nipped into silence by the approach of a Party uniform or the proximity of a telescreen, then taken up again minutes later in the middle of a sentence, then abruptly cut short as they parted at the agreed spot, then continued almost without introduction on the following day.
p. 128..5
- Abruptly his mind went back to Katharine.
p. 133..9 *
- Winston stopped abruptly and turned.
p. 157..2
- The woman's singing had stopped abruptly.
p. 222..4
- Abruptly he was sitting up with O'Brien's arm round his shoulders.
p. 250..5
Definition:
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(abrupt as in: an abrupt change) sudden and unexpected
or (less commonly): characterized by sudden changes or at a steep angle