interrupted
Americanadjective
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broken off or discontinuous.
Even one night of interrupted sleep can affect your mood.
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Botany. having an irregular or discontinuous arrangement, as of leaflets along a stem.
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broken, discontinued, or hindered
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(of plant organs, esp leaves) not evenly spaced along an axis
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Also: deceptive. music (of a cadence) progressing from the dominant chord to any other, such as the subdominant or submediant
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The title derives from Vermeer’s “Girl Interrupted at Her Music,” which Susanna describes as the musical opens.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia in 2011, and 10 years later she wrote Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, a best-selling book on her experience and recovery.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023
In 1970, a year after Barney’s death, the actor James Earl Jones contacted Betty after reading The Interrupted Journey, and with her permission, eventually adapted it into a film, The UFO Incident.
From Slate • Sep. 11, 2023
“Officer and Laughing Girl,” “Mistress and Maid” and “Girl Interrupted at her Music” flew from the U.S.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 7, 2023
By a Spade, an Interrupted or more or less Disastrous Match.
From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Prime-Stevenson, Edward
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