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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
-rupt-, root. 
    1. -rupt- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "break.'' This meaning is found in such words as: abrupt, corrupt, disrupt, erupt, eruption, incorruptible, interrupt, rupture.

'-rupt-' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
bankrupt worm - pseudobankrupt - quasi-bankrupt - rupture

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