INTERRUPT

v. p.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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 speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. Shak.

2.
v.

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

3.
p.

Broken; interrupted. [Obs.] Milton.

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