interrupted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make a break in
    interrupt; cut off; disrupt; break up.
    • We interrupt the program for the following messages
  2. verb destroy the peace or tranquility of
    interrupt; disturb.
    • Don't interrupt me when I'm reading
  3. verb interfere in someone else's activity
    interrupt; disrupt.
    • Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone
  4. verb terminate
    interrupt; break.
    • She interrupted her pregnancy
    • break a lucky streak
    • break the cycle of poverty
  5. adjective satellite discontinued temporarily
    • we resumed the interrupted discussion
  6. adjective satellite intermittently stopping and starting
    fitful; off-and-on.
    • fitful (or interrupted) sleep
    • off-and-on static

WordNet

In`ter*rupt"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
  2. (Bot.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

Webster 1913