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The child is loud, intrusive, screams, runs, climbs on the furniture, demands attention, interrupts, cannot sit still .

The television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.

A contest is divided into two 45-minute periods with a 15-minute halftime, and there are no commercials to interrupt the action.

This one, as the name implies, involves ingesting the long-lasting hallucinogen with the power to interrupt her addiction.

Since a tight feeling in your lungs is so common during panic attacks, deep breathing can interrupt that cycle.

Dirt roads are still carved into the desert hills, but only a few buildings interrupt the landscape.

Then you are a very bad trustee, thus to misuse the foot-way, and interrupt passengers.

Never interrupt an earnest or apparently interesting conversation.

He tells me he doesn't want his marriage to interrupt wholly that pleasant intimacy which has existed between you and me.

An ordinary mortal may not interrupt a king, but a king may interrupt anything, except perhaps a German bombardment.

This long conversation between Ivan and the prince excited some alarm among the shareholders; they tried to interrupt it.

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On this page you'll find 150 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to interrupt, such as: break, break off, cut off, cut short, delay, and discontinue.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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