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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.]
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 speaking.
Do not interrupt me in my course. --Shak.
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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