interruption

interruption is a 12-letter English word with 7 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon.
2. noun. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition.
3. noun. Obstruction caused by breaking in upon course, current, progress, or motion; stop; hindrance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.
4. noun. Temporary cessation; intermission; suspension.
5. noun. an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

   "it was presented without commercial breaks"

   "there was a gap in his account"

   Synonyms: break, disruption, gap

6. noun. some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity

   "the telephone is an annoying interruption"

   "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"

   Synonyms: break

7. noun. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

   Synonyms: break, intermission, pause, suspension

Synonyms

break, disruption, gap, intermission, pause, suspension

Common word forms

interruptions

Words from these letters

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