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interrupt: a signal that temporarily stops the execution of a program so that another procedure can be carried out; terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty"; destroy the peace or tranquility of; "Don't interrupt me when I'm reading"; interfere in someone else's activity; "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone"; make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

discontinue collapse: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"; come or be at an end; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31"

cut in collapse: mix in with cutting motions; interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner; "Jim always cuts in!"; drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably; allow someone to have a share or profit

prevent collapse: prevent from doing something or being in a certain state; "We must prevent the cancer from spreading"; "His snoring kept me from falling asleep"; "Keep the child from eating the marbles"; keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project"

disarrange collapse: disturb the arrangement of; "disarrange the papers"; destroy the arrangement or order of; "My son disarranged the papers on my desk"

meddle collapse: intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!"

intercept collapse: the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis; seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

disrupt collapse: throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"

punctuate collapse: insert punctuation marks into; interrupt periodically; "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"

retard collapse: cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate"; be delayed

impede collapse: be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project"

set back collapse: slow down the progress of; hinder; "His late start set him back"; cost a certain amount; "My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000"

intrude collapse: thrust oneself in as if by force; "The colors don't intrude on the viewer"; enter uninvited; "They intruded on our dinner party"; "She irrupted into our sitting room"; search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office"

disjoin collapse: become separated, disconnected or disjoint; make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of

resist collapse: withstand the force of something; "The trees resisted her"; "stand the test of time"; "The mountain climbers had to fend against the ice and snow"; stand up or offer resistance to somebody or something; refuse to comply; resist immunologically the introduction of some foreign tissue or organ; "His body rejected the liver of the donor"

inhibit collapse: limit the range or extent of; "Contact between the young was inhibited by strict social customs"

intervene collapse: occur between other event or between certain points of time; "the war intervened between the birth of her two children"; get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force; "Why did the U.S. not intervene earlier in WW II?"; be placed or located between other things or extend between spaces and events; "This interludes intervenes between the two movements"; "Eight days intervened"

obstruct collapse: block passage through; "obstruct the path"; shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight; "The thick curtain blocked the action on the stage"; "The trees obstruct my view of the mountains"; hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn"

interfere collapse: come between so as to be hindrance or obstacle; "Your talking interferes with my work!"

suspend collapse: cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"; make inoperative or stop; "suspend payments on the loan"; hang freely; "The secret police suspended their victims from the ceiling and beat them"; bar temporarily; from school, office, etc.; render temporarily ineffective; "the prison sentence was suspended"

put in collapse: make an application as for a job or funding; "We put in a grant to the NSF"; devote (time, effort, etc.) to a task; "He put in three hours every day at the hospital"

break in collapse: make submissive, obedient, or useful; "The horse was tough to break"; "I broke in the new intern"; break so as to call inward; "He broke in the door"; start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role; intrude on uninvited; "The nosy couple broke in on our conversation"; enter someone's property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act; "Someone broke in while I was on vacation"; "They broke into my car and stole my radio!"

repress collapse: put down by force or intimidation; "The government quashes any attempt of an uprising"; "China keeps down her dissidents very efficiently"; "The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land"

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