Abruption: alternatives and connections

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…

The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.

One who, or that which, breaks.

of Burst

An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crust have been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; -- opp…

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterio…

To expel air, or obstructing or irritating matter, from the lungs or air passages, in a noisy and violent manner.

To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence.

A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses b…

A tearing apart; violent separation.

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.

A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.

The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impr…

The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the…

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separa…

imp. & p. p. of Fight.