Meaning of INTERRUPTED
Pronunciation: | | `intur'uptud
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- [adj] intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
- [adj] discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted discussion"
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| Synonyms: | | broken, discontinued, fitful, off-and-on(a) |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In`ter*rupt"ed\, a.
1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
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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Medical Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Disconnected stitches. |
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Biology Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | Of an inflorescence, having the flowers unevenly distributed along the main stem, with conspicuous gaps. |
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| Related Terms: | | 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 |
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