All intermitted synonyms
inΒ·terΒ·mit
I i verb intermitted
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- meddle β to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
- 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.
- quit β to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
- halt β to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
- discontinue β to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
- terminate β to bring to an end; put an end to: to terminate a contract.
- refrain β to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- desist β If you desist from doing something, you stop doing it.
- fail β to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- break off β If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- suspend β to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- prolong β to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer: to prolong one's stay abroad.
- waive β to refrain from claiming or insisting on; give up; forgo: to waive one's right; to waive one's rank; to waive honors.
- 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.
- hold up β 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.
- stall β a pretext, as a ruse, trick, or the like, used to delay or deceive.
- shelve β to place (something) on a shelf or shelves.
- adjourn β If a meeting or trial is adjourned or if it adjourns, it is stopped for a short time.
- postpone β to put off to a later time; defer: He has postponed his departure until tomorrow.
- set aside β the act or state of setting or the state of being set.
- defer β If you defer an event or action, you arrange for it to happen at a later date, rather than immediately or at the previously planned time.
- restrict β to confine or keep within limits, as of space, action, choice, intensity, or quantity.
- bar β A bar is a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks.
- prevent β to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
- withhold β to hold back; restrain or check.
- hold β 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.
- hamper β to hold back; hinder; impede: A steady rain hampered the progress of the work.
- keep β to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
- stop β to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- stem β science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, considered as a group of academic or career fields (often used attributively): degree programs in STEM disciplines; teaching STEM in high school.
- cease β If something ceases, it stops happening or existing.
- interrupt β to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
- intrude β to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
- rule out β a principle or regulation governing conduct, action, procedure, arrangement, etc.: the rules of chess.
- file β a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
- reject β to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
- finish β to bring (something) to an end or to completion; complete: to finish a novel; to finish breakfast.
- die β When people, animals, and plants die, they stop living.
- drop β a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
- culminate β If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- stay β (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- surcease β to cease from some action; desist.
adj intermitted
- delayed β of or relating to a particle, as a neutron or alpha particle, that is emitted from an excited nucleus formed in a nuclear reaction, the emission occurring some time after the reaction is completed.
- suspended β to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
- withheld β to hold back; restrain or check.
- tabled β an article of furniture consisting of a flat, slablike top supported on one or more legs or other supports: a kitchen table; an operating table; a pool table.
- scrubbed β stunted; scrubby.
- adjourned β to suspend the meeting of (a club, legislature, committee, etc.) to a future time, another place, or indefinitely: to adjourn the court.