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/ˌɪntərˈəpt/ /ˌɪnərˈəpt/ 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

Interrupt adj. Broken; interrupted. (Obs.)

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... Lord Harrowby called on Hardenberg. "He told me that in a council of war held since the arrival of the first accounts of the disaster, it had been decided to order a part of the Prussian army to march into Bohemia. These events, he said, need not interrupt our negotiations." Then, on the 12th came the news of the armistice: Harrowby saw Hardenberg that evening. "I was struck with something like irritation in his manner, with a sort of reference to the orders of the King, and with an expression which dropped from him that circumstances ...

— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe

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... Sometimes he would interrupt himself, and utter a hoarse cry from the depths of his throat; Matho's mule would quicken his pace, and others would hasten after them, and then Spendius would begin again though still torn with agony. This subsided at last on the ...

— Salammbo • Gustave Flaubert

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... of myself at all, or interrupt my darling's narrative, except to say what was happening in ...

— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine

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... I may here interrupt Torres' description in order to point out the various discoveries which he made along the southern shores of New Guinea during the course of his voyage to Manila in which he passed through the straits that ...

— The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea • George Collingridge

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... "the patriotic six," as they were called, was eagerly espoused by the colony. To supply the vacancies occasioned by their retirement was the labor of weeks. The governor defended himself from the charge of despotism, and declared that he would never interrupt the freedom of debate or attempt to force the compliance of the council. The opposition press held up to scorn those disposed to accept a nomination, and gentlemen who did so were assailed with scandalous abuse,—so ...

— The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2) • John West

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