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How to pronounce “interrupt”
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Pronunciation guide for interrupt
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of interrupt with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How better tech could protect us from distraction
because every time we interrupt each other,
- Definition summary
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce interrupt
How better tech could protect us from distraction

because every time we interrupt each other,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “interrupt”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- [Noun]
- (computing, electronics) An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
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