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Definition of Interrupting
1. interrupt [v] - See also: interrupt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Interrupting
Literary usage of Interrupting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1867)
"... was detached on this service with one hundred men on the eleventh of June,
and remained for several weeks near tbe railroad, frequently interrupting, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"3) from Northcote gives a very correct idea of these galleries, with the tiers
of graves pierced in the walls. The doorways which are seen interrupting the ..."
3. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott (1889)
"Interrupting for correction.—Counsel has a right to interpose, during the argument
of adverse counsel, to object to his ..."
4. A Brief for the Trial of Civil Issues Before a Jury by Austin Abbott, William Charles Wermuth (1922)
"Sickness interrupting trial. The mere disturbance of the trial by the sudden
sickness of a party presents an occasion for the discretionary ruling of the ..."
5. Curiosities of the Law Reporters by Franklin Fiske Heard (1871)
"... which he was detailing to the judges, who rose, and one of them said (interrupting
him), This court does not sit here as accountants ; and they retired. ..."
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