Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: interruption
IPA transcription: [,ɪntɚ'ʌpʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: break, interruption, disruption, gap
    Meaning: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
  • Synonyms: interruption, break
    Meaning: some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity; "the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"
Usage examples
  • Why should interruption come then?
  • At this point, interruption is inevitable.
  • Stapleton was the cause of the interruption.
  • I feared nothing but interruption, and that came too soon.
  • About this time occurred a singular interruption to his work.
  • It lacked only a few hours to daylight when the second interruption occurred.
  • He looked up irritated by the interruption which Captain Blood's advent occasioned.
  • In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment.
  • "Mungo Park, who during a trip in Africa was almost exhausted, dreamed without interruption of the fertile valleys and fields of his home.
  • If you will lock the door to secure us from interruption, I do not doubt that you will find him, when you come back, as quiet as you leave him.