Interrupted

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Broken; intermitted; fitful; acting irregularly or unequally.
  • In botany: Having the principal leaflets divided by intervals of smaller ones: applied to compound leaves.
  • Having the larger spikes divided by a series of smaller ones: applied to flowers: opposed to continuous.
  • In zoology, suddenly stopped; having a gap or hiatus: as, an interrupted stria.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
  • adjective. 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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  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of interrupt.
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  • adjective. intermittently stopping and starting
  • adjective. discontinued temporarily
    • Word Usage
    "The soft calling of his name interrupted his thoughts, and he looked up to find Dorothy standing beside his table."
    cross-reference
    interrupted cadence  
    Equivalent
    broken  discontinued  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    corrupted  disrupted  erupted  uninterrupted  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    broken  broken  broken off  chopped-off  choppy  
    verb-stem
    interrupt  
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