Interrupt
To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking.
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.
Broken; interrupted.
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Interrupt Quotations
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
Rodney Dangerfield
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
Amelia Earhart
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson
I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
Norman Lear
There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.
Neil Gaiman
And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.
Murray Walker
Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.
Ryan Stiles
Interrupt Translations
interrupt in Dutch is onderbreken, interrumperen, schorsen
interrupt in French is interromps, interrompons, interrompent
interrupt in Latin is rumpo
interrupt in Norwegian is avbryte
interrupt in Spanish is interrumpir
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