interrupt
verb (used with object)
to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
interruptedly
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a word derived from
interrupt.
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a word derived from
interrupted.
interruptedadjectivebroken off or discontinuous.
Example Sentences
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Working toward the streams, the materials of the soil are in time delivered to those flowing waters, and by them urged speedily, though in most cases interruptedly, toward the ocean.
From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
These words he spoke feebly, interruptedly, but distinctly.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various
Primary portion and branches thick, the branches interruptedly pinnate with short obtuse divisions.—On decayed wood and moss in swamps, N. J.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
They have very lately sat in the Colchester Committee as many, within one or two, days successively as have been spent in this trial interruptedly in the course of two years.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Interrupted growth.—This term is here used in the same sense as in ordinary descriptive botany, as when an "interruptedly pinnate" leaf is spoken of.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
