Crossword clues for interrupted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interrupt \In`ter*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Interrupted; p. pr. & vb. n. Interrupting.] [L. interruptus, p. p. of interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]
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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.
--Shak. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Interrupted \In`ter*rupt"ed\, a.
Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
(Bot.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: interrupt)
WordNet
adj. discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted discussion"
intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: fitful, off-and-on(a)]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "interrupted".
Interrupted suddenly, they looked toward the doorway before Abram could answer.
Tom interrupted to remark that Wings Dedham had a considerable reputation in experimental radio and electrical aids to flying.
He was interrupted by a heaving shock that made the underground dome dwelling shake like a light airboat in turbulence.
It was their intention to have proceeded farther that day, but their progress was interrupted by an affair between their Albanian guard and the primate of the village.
He kept on talking until Andi interrupted, claiming a need to move on.
Someone interrupted my satisfaction by grabbing me, so I slammed a foot into his head, then drove my other heel back into his face.
She had undone two buttons and the bandana belt around her waist when Ryder interrupted.
It went on that way, each sentence interrupted by cheers and applause, as Baraka told how the men had found out plans for a sneak Israeli attack on Lobynia with atomic pistols, and they set out deep into the heartland of Israel, even into Tel Aviv, and foiled the plan and laid much of that city waste before they were finally overwhelmed by the entire Israeli army.
Hugh seemed half annoyed at being interrupted all the time but half pleased that Barong was coming out of his shell.
I was going to ask him at Basrah and they interrupted us and I forgot?
Edward at Basrah when Mrs Clayton had interrupted by calling them in for drinks.
Fragments of Sanskrit and Bengali interrupted clear passages and crawled up the margins.
The silence was interrupted only by a chirping cricket somewhere in the distant brush, and the disciple remembered the hours he had spent in a similar posture listening for the footsteps of the Baptist returning from his solitude to the Bethabara cave.
He found Kelford there, and the billiard fiend proposed that they resume the interrupted game of the night before.
A view of assembly lines, staffed almost entirely by bots, the blossoms on their heads making long rows of colorful blossoms, interrupted occasionally by the smoother heads of humans.