Interrupted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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     1. 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.
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              Do not interrupt me in my course.     --Shak.
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     2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the
        evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Interrupted \In`ter*rupt"ed\, a.
     1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
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     2. (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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  interrupted
       adj 1: discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted
              discussion"
       2: intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or
          interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: {fitful}, {off-and-on(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "interrupted":
     broken, broken off, chopped-off, choppy, decousu, disconnected,
     discontinued, discontinuous, discrete, disjunctive, episodic,
     fitful, herky-jerky, incoherent, intermittent, irregular, jagged,
     jerky, noncontinuous, nonlinear, nonsequential, nonserial,
     nonuniform, parenthetic, patchy, scrappy, snatchy, spasmodic,
     spotty, suspended, unconnected, unjoined, unsuccessive