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repress
English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from Latin repressus, the perfect passive participle of reprim? (“I repress”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???p??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Verb
repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
- (transitive) To forcefully prevent an upheaval from developing further.
- (transitive, by extension) To check; to keep back.
Synonyms
- (forcefully preventing an upheaval from developing): to crush; to quell; to subdue; to suppress
- (to keep back): to restrain; to hold back
Related terms
- repression
- repressive
Translations
Etymology 2
re- +? press
Verb
repress (third-person singular simple present represses, present participle repressing, simple past and past participle repressed)
- To press again.
- to repress a vinyl record
Noun
repress (plural represses)
- A record pressed again; a repressing.
Anagrams
- Presser, presser
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interrupt
English
Alternative forms
- interrumpt (archaic), interroupt (rare), interrout (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin interruptus, from interrumpere (“to break apart, break to pieces, break off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??nt????pt/ (verb)
- (verb)
- Rhymes: -?pt (verb)
- IPA(key): /??nt????pt/ (noun)
- Hyphenation: in?ter?rupt
Verb
interrupt (third-person singular simple present interrupts, present participle interrupting, simple past and past participle interrupted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
Antonyms
- continue
- resume
Related terms
- interruptee
- interrupter
- interruption
- abrupt
- corrupt
- disrupt
Translations
Noun
interrupt (plural interrupts)
- (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
Derived terms
Translations
Further reading
- interrupt in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- interrupt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- interrupt at OneLook Dictionary Search
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