interrupt
/ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/ verb B1- To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking. · A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.
- To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of. · The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
- To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled. · The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.
He/she/it interrupts · Past interrupted · Past participle interrupted · -ing form interrupting
Verb forms
- Base form
- interrupt
- He/she/it
- interrupts
- Past
- interrupted
- Past participle
- interrupted
- -ing form
- interrupting
From the library
The Hawk, interrupting him, said: “I should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready in my hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within sight.”
Then the king, who, without our suspecting it, had overheard our conversation, interrupted us by saying, ‘Villefort’—observe that the king did not pronounce the word Noirtier, but, on the contrary, placed considerable emphasis on that of Villefort—‘Villefort,’ said his majesty, ‘is a young man of great judgment and discretion, who will be sure to make a figure in his profession; I like him much, and it gave me great pleasure to hear that he was about to become the son-in-law of the Marquis and Marquise de Saint-Méran.
“Come, come, my friend,” interrupted the marquise, “do not neglect your duty to linger with us.
One of them interrupting him said, “If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not thus counsel us.”
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