interrupted

interrupted
    adj 1: discontinued temporarily; "we resumed the interrupted
           discussion"
    2: intermittently stopping and starting; "fitful (or
       interrupted) sleep"; "off-and-on static" [syn: {fitful},
       {interrupted}, {off-and-on(a)}]
    

Interrupt \In`ter*rupt"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Interrupted}; p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Interrupting}.] [L. interruptus, p. p. of
   interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break.
   See {Rupture}.]
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   1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking
      in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the
      current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of;
      as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking.
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            Do not interrupt me in my course.     --Shak.
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   2. To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the
      evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
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Interrupted \In`ter*rupt"ed\, a.
   1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
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   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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33 Moby Thesaurus words for "interrupted":
      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