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Meaning of INTERRUPTED

Pronunciation:  `intur'uptud

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static"
  2. [adj]  discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted discussion"
 
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 Synonyms: broken, discontinued, fitful, off-and-on(a)
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 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
 
 Definition: Disconnected stitches.
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: Of an inflorescence, having the flowers unevenly distributed along the main stem, with conspicuous gaps.
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 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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