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[syn: fitful, interrupted, off-and-on(a)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Interrupt \In`ter*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interrupted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Interrupting.] [L. interruptus, p. p. of
interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break.
See Rupture.]
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1. 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.
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Do not interrupt me in my course. --Shak.
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2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the
evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Interrupted \In`ter*rupt"ed\, a.
1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
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2. (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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
interrupted
adj 1: discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted
discussion"
2: intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or
interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: fitful,
interrupted, off-and-on(a)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "interrupted":
broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, disconnected,
discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, episodic,
fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intermittent, irregular, jagged,
jerky, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial,
nonuniform, parenthetic, patchy, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic,
spotty, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive