• IPA: /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpt/ qual verb
• IPA: /ˈɪntəˌɹʌpt/ qual noun

interrupt (interrupts, present participle interrupting; past and past participle interrupted)

1. (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:

     Do not interrupt me in my course.

   A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.

2. (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

   The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

3. (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.

   The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor.

• continue
• resume

• interruptee
• interrupter
• interruption
• abrupt
• corrupt
• disrupt

• French: interrompre
• German: unterbrechen
• Italian: interrompere
• Portuguese: interromper
• Russian: прерыва́ть
• Spanish: interrumpir

• Portuguese: interromper
• Russian: прерыва́ть

interrupt (plural interrupts)

1. (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.

   The interrupt caused the packet handler routine to run.

• Russian: прерывание
• Spanish: interrupción