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interrupted

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??nt????pt?d/
  • Hyphenation: in?ter?rupt?ed

Verb

interrupted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of interrupt

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interrupter

English

Etymology

interrupt +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

interrupter (plural interrupters)

  1. One who or that which interrupts.
  2. A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit.
  3. (slang, humorous) An interpreter (person who interprets speech in a foreign language)
    • 2005, Ian Oliver, Jan Oliver, War and Peace in the Balkans
      The other half of the local staff was employed as interpreters, often affectionately known as 'interrupters.'
    • 2017, Dean Bailey, Crawling Out of Hell: The True Story of a British Sniper's Greatest Battle
      The Coldstream Guards were already in place and knocked on the door. Daz Farrugia stood at the door with the Iraqi interrupter. [] The door opened and a middle aged Iraqi man stood there in his pajamas, gobbing off in Arabic, saying who knows what, but I guessed it was not very complimentary; the interpreter managed to calm him down.

Translations

References

  • interrupter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • interrupter in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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