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UK
/ˈɪntəɹˌʌpt/
]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈəpt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈəpt/ ]
NOUN
- a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out
VERB
-
destroy the peace or tranquility of
Don't interrupt me when I'm reading -
terminate
break the cycle of poverty
She interrupted her pregnancy
break a lucky streak -
interfere in someone else's activity
Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone -
make a break in
We interrupt the program for the following messages
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.
- This is the lowest attendance for the first four days since 2007, when frequent rain interruptions hit the first week. Times, Sunday Times
- 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.
- After that you might as well drink to the peacefulness too, uninterrupted but for the clack of a distant tractor.
- Along with their fearlessness it's the candidness of these three interrupters, who have made their lives open books from which they preach a new gospel of peace, that pulls you into the movie.
- 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.