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/ɪntəˈmɪt/ · verb
(transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend..
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.
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
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.”
Use intermit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Intermit means (transitive, now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend..
Common synonyms include break, pause.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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