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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Understanding how viruses construct their protective protein shells, and how that construction might be interrupted, could lead to new antiviral drugs, improved vaccines, and other medical treatments.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
His Tuesday night campaign event was interrupted when an attendee attempted to confront him over the ad.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was interrupted by a protester during his keynote speech at the chip giant’s artificial-intelligence conference in Berlin.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
The breach caused the company, Instructure, to temporarily take Canvas offline and interrupted classes, assignments and finals preparations for hundreds of thousands of students and professors as hackers threatened to release their personal data.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
“Daisy,” I interrupted, “when you saw that old man, was he frowning or smiling?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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