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Another word for interrupt

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Verb

  1. To stop suddenly, as a conversation, activity, or relationship

    See also:

    continue

  2. To interject remarks or questions into another's discourse

    See also:

    continue

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Another word for interrupt

Verb

  1. To make a break in the continuity of

    See also:

    suspend

    prevent

    hinder

  2. To break in on

    See also:

    meddle

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Sentence Examples

  • I didn't want to interrupt your reunion.

  • Sure. I'm sorry to interrupt you.

  • Not to interrupt this lover's spat, but I could use a glass of wine.

  • Moreover, although they interrupt the folding of the zone in which they occur, they do not disturb it: they do not, in fact, rise through the zone, but lie upon it like unconformable masses - in other words, they rest upon a thrust-plane.

  • But I don't want to interrupt you, he added, and was about to go to the drawing room.

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