INTERRUPTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interrupted mean? 

• INTERRUPTED (adjective)
  The adjective INTERRUPTED has 2 senses:

1. discontinued temporarily

2. intermittently stopping and starting

  Familiarity information: INTERRUPTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERRUPTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Discontinued temporarily

Context example:

we resumed the interrupted discussion

Similar:

discontinued (stopped permanently or temporarily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Intermittently stopping and starting

Synonyms:

fitful; interrupted; off-and-on

Context example:

off-and-on static

Similar:

broken (not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly)

 Context examples 

Van Helsing had been silent all dinner-time; but when we had lit our cigars he said—"Lord—"; but Arthur interrupted him:—No, no, not that, for God's sake! not yet at any rate.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Suppose I haven't got it,” he interrupted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I remember writing a review of a thin little volume—” I had begun carelessly, when she interrupted me.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He talked soothingly to him, but not for long, then slowly put out his hand, rested it on White Fang's head, and resumed the interrupted patting.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"The best things the world has!" I interrupted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Following him down the passage I was suddenly interrupted by a small woman, who stepped out from what proved to be the dining-room door.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A sharp ring interrupted her, and a minute after Hannah came in with a letter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"But that takes money," he interrupted.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Now, sir, I suggest that you take no notice of this addition to your audience, and that you proceed with your narrative exactly as you would have done had you never been interrupted.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Jim,” the doctor interrupted, and his voice was quite changed, “Jim, I can't have this. Whip over, and we'll run for it.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)