verb
- Make a break in.
- usage: "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
- Destroy the peace or tranquility of.
- usage: "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"
- Interfere in someone else's activity.
- usage: "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone"
- Terminate.
- usage: "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"
adjective
- Discontinued temporarily.
- usage: "we resumed the interrupted discussion"
- Intermittently stopping and starting.
- usage: "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
- synonyms: fitful, off-and-on
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