[ UK /ˈɪntəɹˌʌpt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈəpt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out
VERB
  1. destroy the peace or tranquility of
    Don't interrupt me when I'm reading
  2. terminate
    break the cycle of poverty
    She interrupted her pregnancy
    break a lucky streak
  3. interfere in someone else's activity
    Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone
  4. make a break in
    We interrupt the program for the following messages
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How To Use interrupt In A Sentence

  • A few talented writers en dowed with originality and exceptional animation, a few brilliant efforts, isolated, without following, interrupted and recommenced, did not suffice to endow a nation with a solid and imposing basis of literary wealth. Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
  • The birth of her son was a minor interruption to her career.
  • Dr. Orkborne, much incommoded by this second interruption, coldly begged to know his pleasure. Camilla
  • The rally has defied all odds and logic with only two, short interruptions since it began its climb in August 1982.
  • This is the lowest attendance for the first four days since 2007, when frequent rain interruptions hit the first week. Times, Sunday Times
  • Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
  • The program design is based on bus time sharing and interrupt servicing. It can renew the speeds and the directions of every motor at real time.
  • But when he returned to his room to give his other half the glad tidings, the housekeeper, who was listening to the story, interrupted to tell them that she knew of plenty of empty rooms.
  • Children must learn not to interrupt.
  • But the process to extend his term became bogged down in a series of disputes that had raised an outside chance that Mr. Mueller's tenure would be briefly interrupted. NYT > Home Page
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