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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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
Judge Alvin Hellerstein interrupted Maduro, and declared the court would enter a plea of not guilty for Maduro.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
The first experiment involved playing a series of repeating tones, occasionally interrupted by a sound that differed from the others.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
"It's not working for the Broadway productions that are interrupted by loud noise blaring from pedicabs outside their theaters," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
My silent appeal for the Lord to take up my cause was interrupted when we approached a large crowd surrounding the well.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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