All interrupt synonyms

verb interrupt

• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• cut off — If you cut something off, you remove it with a knife or a similar tool.
• disturb — to interrupt the quiet, rest, peace, or order of; unsettle.
• suspend — to hang by attachment to something above: to suspend a chandelier from the ceiling.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• discontinue — to put an end to; stop; terminate: to discontinue nuclear testing.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• punctuate — to mark or divide (something written) with punctuation marks in order to make the meaning clear.
• cut short — to stop abruptly before the end
• delay — 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 — 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.
• impede — to retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; obstruct; hinder.
• break — 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.
• heckle — to harass (a public speaker, performer, etc.) with impertinent questions, gibes, or the like; badger.
• break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• defer — 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.
• intrude — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• in — (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits): walking in the park.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• disjoin — to undo or prevent the junction or union of; disunite; separate.
• stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
• infringe — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
• arrest — 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.
• insinuate — to suggest or hint slyly: He insinuated that they were lying.
• inject — to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue: to inject a medicine into the veins.
• disunite — to sever the union of; separate; disjoin.
• disconnect — SCSI reconnect
• check — Check is also a noun.
• sever — to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
• shortstop — Baseball. the position of the player covering the area of the infield between second and third base. a fielder who covers this position.
• interject — to insert between other things: to interject a clarification of a previous statement.
• interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
• intersect — to cut or divide by passing through or across: The highway intersects the town.
• interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• 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.
• disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
• break up — When something breaks up or when you break it up, it separates or is divided into several smaller parts.
• barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
• break in — If someone, usually a thief, breaks in, they get into a building by force.
• butt in — If you say that someone is butting in, you are criticizing the fact that they are joining in a conversation or activity without being asked to.
• come between — If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy.
• horn in — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
• chime in — If you chime in, you say something just after someone else has spoken.
• edge in — a line or border at which a surface terminates: Grass grew along the edges of the road. The paper had deckle edges.