1 ~ (sb/sth) (with sth) to say or do sth that makes sb stop what they are saying or doing:
[V] Sorry to interrupt, but there's someone to see you. * Would you mind not interrupting all the time? * [VN] I hope I'm not interrupting you. * They were interrupted by a knock at the door. [also Vspeech, VNspeech]
2 [VN] to stop the continuous progress of sth for a short time:
The game was interrupted several times by rain. * We interrupt this programme to bring you an important news bulletin.
3 [VN] to stop a line, surface, view, etc. from being even or continuous
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for interrupt is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is interrupt a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, interrupt is tagged as verb.
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