Word Finder - interrupted

definition

To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.

example

A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.

definition

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

example

The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

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To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.

example

The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.

A ringing telephone interrupted us.

Jonathan's voice interrupted her thoughts.

A knock at the door interrupted their conversation.

Lathum interrupted his thoughts.

He was interrupted several times by applause.

She started to type a response when Jenn's voice interrupted her.

A phone call interrupted further discussion.

Remember when Claudette interrupted us in the kitchen?

A phone call interrupted the conversation.

The Emperor interrupted him.

Her fall was brutally interrupted by a rock ledge about five feet down.

The heavy thump of footsteps on the stairs interrupted their conversation.

But she interrupted me to say she was very sure she could feel my mouth very well.

The manly voice again interrupted the artillery officer.

But the doctor interrupted him and moved toward his gig.

Davis interrupted her thoughts.

Claudette hadn't interrupted Cade making a pass.

No details yet, Before I could answer, I was interrupted by a scream from my wife that sent chills down my spine.

A sharp ring from the hall telephone interrupted him.

Princess Mary interrupted him.

Had she interrupted him stealing something?

Hannah returned a short time later, the only thing that interrupted Giovanni's ramblings.

So if its person-to-person transmission can be interrupted, it truly can be eradicated from the planet.

For the rest of the long afternoon, perhaps, my meditations are interrupted only by the faint rattle of a carriage or team along the distant highway.

But the Emperor smiled and interrupted him.

In the middle of the reading, the Uhlan interrupted Denisov.

In another moment Davout would have realized that he was doing wrong, but just then the adjutant had come in and interrupted him.

That night, for the first time in more than a week, she tossed and turned in the bed, her sleep interrupted by memories of her family.

Their conversation was interrupted by a tapping at the back door.

The lush Scottish Highlands around him were covered in a blanket of snow that stretched for miles, the white world interrupted only by a few narrow roads snaking in different directions.

Her meaning didn.t click, and he turned to see who had interrupted them.

Denisov interrupted him, went on reading his paper.

The phone interrupted any further discussion of electronic larceny.

Quinn started to speak but Howie interrupted him.

Since war historically has interrupted the flow of consumer goods, and would do so even more in our present interconnected world, preserving our hard-earned possessions provides an additional disincentive to war.

Mick, the ice climber, interrupted them before Dean could think up a proper reply.

Tim's voice interrupted his concentration.

Katie's musings interrupted her thoughts.

I interrupted your breakfast.

He probably didn't want to be interrupted again for something she could do without assistance, though.

Maybe lifting that suitcase …" "It's not my shoulder," she interrupted and then sighed.

And my cousins, and now –" "I can toss you back in bed and wear you out until you calm down," he interrupted.

If the coenosteum of Millepora be broken across, each pore-canal (perhaps better termed a polypcanal) is seen to be interrupted by a series of transverse partitions, representing successive periods of growth with separation from the underlying dead portions.

It is surrounded by (I) a thin-walled, smaller-celled hydrom mantle; (2) an amylom sheath; (3) a leptom mantle, interrupted here and there by starch cells.

His foreign tour, during which he visited Germany, Holland, England, France and Austria, lasted nearly a year and a half, and was suddenly interrupted, when on his way from Vienna to Venice to study the construction of war-galleys, by the alarming news that the turbulent stryeltsi of Moscow had mutinied anew with the intention of placing Sophia on the throne.

His legal career was early interrupted by the Civil War.

A wholesome diversion was provided by the serious resumption of the policy of eastern expansion, which had been interrupted by the civil war.

On the north bank of the great river, lands of this sort run down the whole length of the valley, except where they are interrupted by the beds of the hill streams. The breadth of these plains is in some places very trifling, whilst in others they comprise a tract of many miles, according to the number and the height of the rocks or hills that protect them from the aberrations of the river.

Refusing to be a presidential candidate in 1888, he became secretary of state under President Harrison, and resumed his work which had been interrupted nearly eight years before.

He interrupted his studies at the university by a voyage to the East Indies, and only returned to Stockholm after many adventures.