intermit — Dizionario inglese

Verbo

1. To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

   Uso

   • arcaico
   • transitivo

   Parole correlate

   intermissionmission

   Esempi

   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.

   Altri esempi (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.”

Verbo

1. cease an action temporarily

   Sinonimi

   pausebreak

   Termini più generali

   interruptdisruptbreak upcut off

   Esempi

   We pause for station identification

   let's break for lunch