All interruption synonyms
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I i noun interruption
- break β When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
- layoff β the act of dismissing employees, especially temporarily.
- letup β cessation; pause; relief.
- intrusion β Law. an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property. a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.
- stoppage β an act or instance of stopping; cessation of activity: the stoppage of all work at the factory.
- hiatus β a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
- hitch β to fasten or tie, especially temporarily, by means of a hook, rope, strap, etc.; tether: Steve hitched the horse to one of the posts.
- delay β If you delay doing something, you do not do it immediately or at the planned or expected time, but you leave it until later.
- disruption β forcible separation or division into parts.
- pause β a temporary stop or rest, especially in speech or action: a short pause after each stroke of the oar.
- disturbance β the act of disturbing.
- breach β If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
- suspension β the act of suspending.
- rupture β the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
- blackout β A blackout is a period of time during a war in which towns and buildings are made dark so that they cannot be seen by enemy planes.
- cutoff β A cutoff or a cutoff point is the level or limit at which you decide that something should stop happening.
- abeyance β a state of being suspended or put aside temporarily
- dissolution β the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
- obstruction β something that obstructs, blocks, or closes up with an obstacle or obstacles; obstacle or hindrance: obstructions to navigation.
- interim β an intervening time; interval; meantime: School doesn't start till September, but he's taking a Spanish class in the interim.
- check β Check is also a noun.
- dormancy β the state of being dormant.
- severance β the act of severing or the state of being severed.
- discontinuance β the act or state of discontinuing or the state of being discontinued; cessation: the discontinuance of a business.
- quiescence β being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.
- split β to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
- division β the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- latency β the state of being latent.
- parenthesis β either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- gap β a department in SE France. 2179 sq. mi. (5645 sq. km). Capital: Gap.
- separation β an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
- disconnection β the act of disconnecting.
- doldrums β A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks β so called by sailors.
- rift β an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
- intermission β a short interval between the acts of a play or parts of a public performance, usually a period of approximately 10 or 15 minutes, allowing the performers and audience a rest.
- interval β an intervening period of time: an interval of 50 years.
- lacuna β a gap or missing part, as in a manuscript, series, or logical argument; hiatus.
- arrest β If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
- obstacle β something that obstructs or hinders progress.
- impediment β obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
- hindrance β an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- cessation β The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- interlude β an intervening episode, period, space, etc.
- abeyancy β (rare) Abeyance.
- disuniting β Present participle of disunite.
adverb interruption
- at the same time β If two or more things exist, happen, or are true at the same time, they exist, happen, or are true together although they seem to contradict each other.
- meantime β the intervening time: The party is Tuesday, but in the meantime I have to shop and prepare the food.
- in the interim β for the time being, in the meantime