Words that rhyme with cupped

v 1: enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room" [syn: intrude, irrupt] 2: erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" [syn: erupt, irrupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst out] 3: increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner; "The population of India is exploding"; "The island's rodent population irrupted" [syn: explode, irrupt]

adj 1: marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions; "abrupt prose" [syn: abrupt, disconnected] 2: exceedingly sudden and unexpected; "came to an abrupt stop"; "an abrupt change in the weather" 3: extremely steep; "an abrupt canyon"; "the precipitous rapids of the upper river"; "the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"; "a sharp drop" [syn: abrupt, precipitous, sharp] 4: surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner; "an abrupt reply"

adj 1: financially ruined; "a bankrupt company"; "the company went belly-up" [syn: bankrupt, belly-up(p)] n 1: someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts [syn: bankrupt, insolvent] v 1: reduce to bankruptcy; "My daughter's fancy wedding is going to break me!"; "The slump in the financial markets smashed him" [syn: bankrupt, ruin, break, smash]

adj 1: lacking in integrity; "humanity they knew to be corrupt...from the day of Adam's creation"; "a corrupt and incompetent city government" [ant: incorrupt] 2: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive [syn: crooked, corrupt] [ant: square, straight] 3: containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language" [syn: corrupt, corrupted] 4: touched by rot or decay; "tainted bacon"; "`corrupt' is archaic" [syn: corrupt, tainted] v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect] 2: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms] 3: place under suspicion or cast doubt upon; "sully someone's reputation" [syn: defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud] 4: alter from the original [syn: corrupt, spoil]

v 1: make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" [syn: interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off] 2: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process" 3: interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone" [syn: interrupt, disrupt]

v 1: start abruptly; "After 1989, peace broke out in the former East Bloc" [syn: erupt, break out] 2: erupt or intensify suddenly; "Unrest erupted in the country"; "Tempers flared at the meeting"; "The crowd irrupted into a burst of patriotism" [syn: erupt, irrupt, flare up, flare, break open, burst out] 3: start to burn or burst into flames; "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously" [syn: erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate] 4: break out; "The tooth erupted and had to be extracted" [syn: erupt, come out, break through, push through] 5: become active and spew forth lava and rocks; "Vesuvius erupts once in a while" [syn: erupt, belch, extravasate] 6: force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up; "break into tears"; "erupt in anger" [syn: break, burst, erupt] 7: appear on the skin; "A rash erupted on her arms after she had touched the exotic plant" 8: become raw or open; "He broke out in hives"; "My skin breaks out when I eat strawberries"; "Such boils tend to recrudesce" [syn: erupt, recrudesce, break out]

n 1: a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out v 1: make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" [syn: interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off] 2: destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading" [syn: interrupt, disturb] 3: interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone" [syn: interrupt, disrupt] 4: terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" [syn: interrupt, break]