v.
- stop the continuous progress of.
▸stop (a person who is speaking) by saying or doing something.
- break the continuity of (a line, surface, or view):
a sunken fence which doesn't interrupt the view across the fields.
Derivative
- interruptible adj.
- interruptive adj.
Etymology
ME: from L. interrupt-, interrumpere ‘break, interrupt’, from inter- ‘between’ + rumpere ‘to break’.