Intermit

Quick meaning: Intermit is a verb meaning (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

Meaning

(transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

Example Sentences

Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.

The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.

Idleness[…]of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”

Word Forms

• intermits
• intermitting
• intermitted

Synonyms for intermit

Depending on context, synonyms include break, pause.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pause, break, suspend, interrupt, interlapse, disrupt.

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