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/ˌɪntərˈəptɪd/ /ˌɪnərˈəptɪd/ Listen

verb

Interrupt v. t. (past & past part. interrupted; pres. part. interrupting)

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 of anyone speaking. "Do not interrupt me in my course."

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

adjective

Interrupted adj.

Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

(Bot.) Irregular; said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

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Etymology of 'Interrupted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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