Pronunciations (4)
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/ɪntəˈmɪt/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
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/ɪntɚˈmɪt/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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ɪntəˈmɪt
Pronunciation notes
- GB
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ɪntɚˈmɪt
Pronunciation notes
- US
Verb
To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
Usage- Archaic
- Transitive
- Related words
- Examples
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Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.
More examples (1)
Idleness[…]of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
Verb
cease an action temporarily
- Examples
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We pause for station identification
let's break for lunch