Interrupt Synonyms & Definitions

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• InterruptDefinition & Meaning in English

(v. t.) To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.
(p. a.) Broken; interrupted.
(v. t.) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

• InterruptionDefinition & Meaning in English

(n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
(n.) Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
(n.) The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
(n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.

• InterruptedDefinition & Meaning in English

(imp. & p. p.) of Interrupt
(a.) Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
(a.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.