All intermit synonyms

verb intermit

• ward off — a division or district of a city or town, as for administrative or political purposes.
• break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
• count out — If you count out a sum of money, you count the notes or coins as you put them in a pile one by one.
• lay off — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• pink-slip — to dismiss from a job: He will be pink-slipped next month.
• lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• put an end to — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
• back off — If you back off, you move away in order to avoid problems or a fight.
• close out — to terminate (a client's or other account) on which the margin is inadequate or exhausted, usually by sale of securities to realize cash
• knock off — an act or instance of knocking.
• leave off — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• shut down — to put (a door, cover, etc.) in position to close or obstruct.
• wind up — the act of winding.
• call it a day — If you call it a day, you decide to stop what you are doing because you are tired of it or because it is not successful.
• call it quits — to agree to end a dispute, contest, etc, agreeing that honours are even
• come to an end — to become completed or exhausted
• cut it out — to stop doing what one is doing
• give over — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• pack in — Hunting. a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt.
• conclude — If you conclude that something is true, you decide that it is true using the facts you know as a basis.
• end — Come or bring to a final point; finish.
• extend — Cause to cover a larger area; make longer or wider.
• cheque — A cheque is a printed form on which you write an amount of money and who it is to be paid to. Your bank then pays the money to that person from your account.
• encumber — Restrict or burden (someone or something) in such a way that free action or movement is difficult.
• temporise — to be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting.
• baulk — the space, usually 29 inches deep, between the baulk line and the bottom cushion
• intervene — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
• excuse — Attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offense); seek to defend or justify.
• exonerate — (especially of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, especially after due consideration of the case.
• eject — Force or throw (something) out, typically in a violent or sudden way.
• exclude — Deny (someone) access to or bar (someone) from a place, group, or privilege.
• eliminate — Completely remove or get rid of (something).
• hang fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
• lay over — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• put on hold — suspend
• stave off — one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
• hold over — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• keep back — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
• draw up — to cause to move in a particular direction by or as if by a pulling force; pull; drag (often followed by along, away, in, out, or off).
• hold back — to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
• pull up — the act of pulling or drawing.
• blow the whistle on — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
• close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
• cool it — If you tell someone to cool it, you want them to stop being angry and aggressive and to behave more calmly.
• barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
• busybody — If you refer to someone as a busybody, you are criticizing the way they interfere in other people's affairs.