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Interrupted   /ˌɪntərˈəptɪd/  /ˌɪnərˈəptɪd/   Listen
Interrupted

adjective
1.
Discontinued temporarily.
2.
Intermittently stopping and starting.  Synonyms: fitful, off-and-on.  "Off-and-on static"



Interrupt

verb
(past & past part. interrupted; pres. part. interrupting)
1.
Make a break in.  Synonyms: break up, cut off, disrupt.
2.
Destroy the peace or tranquility of.  Synonym: disturb.
3.
Interfere in someone else's activity.  Synonym: disrupt.
4.
Terminate.  Synonym: break.  "Break a lucky streak" , "Break the cycle of poverty"



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"Interrupted" Quotes from Famous Books



... foolishness of the Renaissance which is the best excuse for the foolishness of the Romantic revival; the new classical movement had in such a degree interrupted the continuity of European art that it was very difficult for men in the eighteenth century to recover the past, and we must make allowance for the often ludicrous terms and forms of the new mediaevalism. Indeed it ...
— Progress and History • Various

... better be crawlin' along," interrupted Smith, rising and shouldering his knapsack, with considerable effort, ...
— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... are on the subject of coal, Judge Temple, interrupted the sheriff, I have a thing of much importance to communicate to you; but I will defer it -until tomorrow. I know that you intend riding into the eastern part of the Patent, and I will accompany you, and conduct you to a spot where some of your projects may be realized. We will say ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper

... your traps, of all the sizes you use, from muskrat up to bear!" interrupted the Boy. "What size do you ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... the moral character of his bachelor grace was not the very best in the world. And then his lordship began to ask some questions about the church affairs of Framley, in which a little interest as to Framley Court was also mixed up, when he was interrupted by a rather sharp voice, to ...
— Framley Parsonage • Anthony Trollope


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