Synonyms of interrupts

interrupts

verb

present tense third-person singular of interrupt

as in intrudes

to cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion

it's rude to interrupt when someone is making an important point

Synonyms & Similar Words

• intrudes
• adds
• bothers
• interposes
• breaks in
• chips in
• cuts in
• contributes
• chimes in
• horns in
• puts in
• barges (in)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of interrupts

Curiosity also interrupts a common cognitive distortion in conflict, which is to assume intent. —Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026

Coogan interrupts, unable to resist a punch line. —Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 8 Jan. 2026

Williams says, before a shocked Cohen interrupts. —Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026

There’s everything from tomatoes to bananas, as well as livestock, along with a duck pond and some ersatz pigeon towers built to hide an ugly structure on the skyline that interrupts the bucolic view. —Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2025

Just as sunlight interrupts the darkness over his small Hokkaido city, the 76-year-old pulls on his rain boots and dons a bright orange jacket. —Hanako Montgomery, CNN Money, 11 Dec. 2025

Perverts By turns a budding chart sensation, a political firebrand, and an enthusiastic cataloguer of cryptids, Ethel Cain interrupts a stream of gossamer pop, folk, and rock records with Perverts, a droning rejection of the accessibility of her 2022 Billboard top-ten debut Preacher’s Daughter. —Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025

Played by Matthew Rhys without the faintest hint of self-awareness (aka, played exactly right), the New York City real estate scion who’s also the eldest son of a New York City real estate scion interrupts his wife’s conversations by shouting over her. —Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Nov. 2025

Speaking of Grande, a second clip posted Thursday by NBC opens with figure skating champion Alysa Liu performing a breathtaking routine on the ice before something like an earthquake interrupts her. —Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 6 Nov. 2025