Interrupt(p. a.) Broken; interrupted.
Interrupt(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.
Interrupt(v. t.) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Interrupted(a.) Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
Interrupted(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.
Interrupted(imp. & p. p.) of Interrupt
Interruptedly(adv.) With breaks or interruptions; discontinuously.
Interrupter(n.) One who, or that which, interrupts.
Interrupter(n.) A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself.
Interrupting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interrupt
Interruption(n.) The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
Interruption(n.) The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
Interruption(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.
Interruption(n.) Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
Interruptive(a.) Tending to interrupt; interrupting.
Words within interruptedly