INTERRUPT Copy link • INTERRUPTinterrumpere (to break anything off; to make it cease before its proper time; e.g., orationem, somnum): interpellare (to interrupt a speaker; to try to prevent his going on; then as general term for interrupting): interfari aliquem and absolutely (to interrupt a speaker by an observation of one’s own interposed, not implying the wish to prevent him from saying any more): intermittere (to suspend anything for a time): intercipere (to catch anything, as it were, before it has reached its completion; to bring it to a sudden stand-still, iter, sermonem medium): intervenire alicui rei (to come in before anything is completed, and so delay or prevent its completion; e.g., deliberationi; also with reference to persons, verens ne molesti vobis interveniremus): incidere (to cut short; e.g. sermonem): dirimere (to make anything cease by separating the parties engaged in it, sermonem, proelium; of persons or circumstances). Interrupted, interruptus: interceptus: intermissus. SYN. above.