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.
adjective
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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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A takeover went through later that summer but the damage of an interrupted season had already taken hold and a second successive relegation in a Covid-interrupted campaign followed.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
The mostly smooth ride was only interrupted when an oncoming vehicle veered into the wrong lane, forcing the car to stop suddenly.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Following the strike that interrupted the 1981 season, Ripken Sr. phoned Lesch back and asked him to throw batting practice at Memorial Stadium to help the Orioles prepare for the resumption of play.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
Fed officials entered 2026 confident that price increases would gradually cool, but the shock to oil markets from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has interrupted any progress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Or maybe she was so deep in a book, she didn’t want to be interrupted, so she’d turned her phone off.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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