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UK
/ˌɪntəɹˈʌptɪd/
]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈəptɪd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈəptɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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discontinued temporarily
we resumed the interrupted discussion -
intermittently stopping and starting
fitful (or interrupted) sleep
off-and-on static
How To Use interrupted 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
- After that you might as well drink to the peacefulness too, uninterrupted but for the clack of a distant tractor.
- 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.
- 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
- Interrupted by just the squat Marble Mountains, we sit insignificantly at the hub of a huge disc of sand curving to every horizon, beneath a dome of stars and the ghostly light of a thin crescent moon.
- If uninterrupted peace and quiet are what you crave, a week at this former monastery will deliver the goods. Times, Sunday Times
- On the other end, there's the opening movement of Faschingsschwank aus Wien, where the lyricism is always being interrupted by a boisterous beer-hall ritornello: Florestan suddenly showing up to shake Eusebius out of his reverie and drag him back to the party. Been there, done that
- But as he neared the crux of his missive, he was suddenly interrupted by a flurry of black tresses and wrinkled muslin rushing into the room.
- There were empty grassy fields on either side of the uninterrupted road.
- Suddenly the silence was interrupted by the sound of arrows whizzing and striking soft objects.