Definition of Interrupt

Interrupt

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 speaking.

To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

Broken; interrupted.

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Interrupt Quotations

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson

And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
Murray Walker

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.
Kenny Loggins

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
Norman Lear

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.
Ryan Stiles

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser

Never interrupt your opponent when he's destroying himself.
Paul Begala

Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
E. P. Thompson

You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
Wayne Rogers

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Interrupt Translations

interrupt in Dutch is onderbreken, interrumperen, schorsen
interrupt in French is interromps, interrompons, interrompent
interrupt in Latin is rumpo
interrupt in Norwegian is avbryte
interrupt in Spanish is interrumpir

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