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 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"   |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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.
 |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  Medical Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | Disconnected stitches. |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  Biology Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | Of an inflorescence, having the flowers unevenly distributed along the main stem, with conspicuous gaps. |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  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 |  |  |  |     |    |  |