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{
"term": "interrupt",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "interrupt",
"heSheIt": "interrupts"
},
"pastSimple": "interrupted",
"pastParticiple": "interrupted",
"ingForm": "interrupting"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to say or do something that makes somebody stop what they are saying or doing",
"sensetop": "interrupt with somethinginterrupt somebody/somethinginterrupt somebody/something with somethinginterrupt + speechinterrupt somebody + speech",
"labels": "(formal)",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "Sorry to interrupt, but there's someone to see you."
},
{
"text": "Would you mind not interrupting with questions all the time?",
"contextForm": "interrupt with something"
},
{
"text": "I hope I'm not interrupting you.",
"contextForm": "interrupt somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "They were interrupted by a knock at the door."
},
{
"text": "The President's speech was constantly interrrupted with boos and jeers.",
"contextForm": "interrupt somebody/something with something"
},
{
"text": "‘I have a question,’ she interrupted.",
"contextForm": "interrupt + speech"
},
{
"text": "‘Just listen for a moment,’ he interrupted her angrily.",
"contextForm": "interrupt somebody + speech"
},
{
"text": "‘He's kidding,’ I interrupted hastily."
},
{
"text": "I didn't manage to finish the report. I kept getting interrupted."
},
{
"text": "I thought it better not to interrupt her with any comment."
},
{
"text": "I'm sorry to interrupt, but there's someone here to see you."
},
{
"text": "It was all irrelevant, but I didn't dare interrupt him in mid-flow."
},
{
"text": "What was I saying, before we were so rudely interrupted?"
},
{
"text": "‘What's his name?’ John interrupted."
},
{
"text": "Please stop interrupting all the time!"
},
{
"text": "Sh! You're always interrupting me!"
},
{
"text": "Sorry to interrupt your dinner."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["impatiently", "rudely", "angrily"],
"verb + interrupt": ["be sorry to", "(not) dare (to)"],
"preposition": ["with"],
"phrases": ["get interrupted"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to stop something for a short time",
"sensetop": "interrupt something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The game was interrupted several times by rain."
},
{
"text": "We interrupt this programme to bring you an important news bulletin."
},
{
"text": "Transport services were constantly interrupted by air raids."
},
{
"text": "Their luncheon was brutally interrupted by gunfire."
},
{
"text": "The morning's work was constantly interrupted by phone calls."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to stop a line, surface, view, etc. from being even or continuous",
"sensetop": "interrupt something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "There were no other buildings to interrupt the view of the valley."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpt/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupt__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpts/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupts__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪd/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupted__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupting__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpt/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupt__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpts/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupts__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪd/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupted__us_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪŋ/",
"audio": "in/interrupt/interrupting__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin interrupt- ‘broken, interrupted’, from the verb interrumpere, from inter- ‘between’ + rumpere ‘to break’."
}