interrupted 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of interruptednext
1
as in suspended

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as in sudden

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verb

past tense of interrupt
as in intruded
to cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion it's rude to interrupt when someone is making an important point

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Recent Examples of interrupted
Adjective
Microsoft research found that its most highly interrupted workers can face hundreds of meetings, emails and chat notifications throughout the day. — George Toh, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026 California, Texas, New York, Illinois and North Carolina saw the highest amounts of interrupted grant money. — Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2026
Verb
The first heckler interrupted him roughly four minutes into his remarks. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 27 Oct. 2026 After Orson’s reading from the novel, the broadcast cuts in on a weather report that is then followed by a dance music concert, but the smooth tango music is interrupted by breaking news of strange explosions on Mars. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for interrupted
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interrupted
  1. arrested
  2. sudden
  3. intruded
  4. idle
  5. disconnected
  6. added
  7. inactive
  8. broken
Adjective
  • In the case of the arrested teenager, who was detained in early August, agents pulled him and another man out of a truck in the 7-Eleven parking lot.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of arrested
Adjective
  • Lucy leaves their countryside home with Johnny immediately, going straight to her mother’s house ( Catherine Deneuve plays mom), but avoids telling her, or anyone else, the specifics of this sudden separation.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 28 Oct. 2026
  • All of a sudden, the war took on a more present form, unsettling a kingdom unused to conflicts playing out on home turf.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of sudden
Verb
  • The judge concluded that the policy violated federal law and intruded on authority Congress had left with the states.
    — Thom Reilly, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • This week, an ethical question, of all things, intruded into the baseball playoffs.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of intruded
Adjective
  • Among the biggest changes in the country have to do with changes to corporate governance, including the encouragement of companies to eliminate idle cash and focus more on shareholder returns, that's meant to support growth.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Supply-chain congestion sometimes causes freight trains to sit idle, leaving them vulnerable to thieves in urban rail yards.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of idle
Adjective
  • The system is robustly audited, completely disconnected from the Internet, and is the largest digital voting system deployed on the planet.
    — Solly Boussidan, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Without that foundation, robotics remains disconnected from the business.
    — Rodrigo Madanes, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of disconnected
Verb
  • In 1967, as the Cold War still dominated the country’s collective consciousness, Gene Roddenberry added a young Russian navigator to the bridge of the USS Enterprise.
    — Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Tage Thompson had three goals and two assists, Zach Benson added a goal and two assists, and the Buffalo Sabres scored six consecutive goals during a 7-6 victory over the struggling Ducks on Thursday night.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of added
Adjective
  • When those forces are lacking, as is generally the case in softer tissue, YAP and TAZ remain inactive and stay put outside of the nucleus.
    — Karin Wuertz-Kozak, The Conversation, 27 Oct. 2026
  • But in many cases, recovery doesn’t mean becoming completely inactive.
    — Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of inactive
Adjective
  • Beetz is phenomenal as a young woman rocked by her own broken family history, willing to put herself in harm’s way to stop Jurek’s terror.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Sculptural and subversive, it’s made from broken windows, melted glass bottles, and is repurposed using old engine oil as fuel.
    — Vy Yang, Architectural Digest, 30 Oct. 2026
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“Interrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/interrupted. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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