What is another word for interruption?
Synonyms for interruption
ˌɪn təˈrʌp ʃənin·ter·rup·tion
This thesaurus page includes all potential synonyms, words with the same meaning and similar terms for the word interruption.
Princeton's WordNet
break, interruption, disruption, gapnoun
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
"it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
Synonyms:
disturbance, gap, commotion, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, crack, rift, intermission, break of serve, severance, falling out, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, flutter, hoo-hah, geological fault, hurly burly, spread, col, to-do, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, open frame, gaolbreak, dislocation, breach, breakage, perturbation, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, kerfuffle, opening, rupture, hoo-ha, prison-breakinginterruption, breaknoun
some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
"the telephone is an annoying interruption"; "there was a break in the action when a player was hurt"
Synonyms:
recess, good luck, rift, fault, prison-breaking, breakout, fracture, suspension, break of serve, happy chance, respite, geological fault, faulting, shift, time out, severance, pause, open frame, breach, breakage, disruption, jailbreak, gap, falling out, prisonbreak, breaking, intermission, rupture, gaolbreak, breakpause, intermission, break, interruption, suspensionnoun
a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
Synonyms:
prison-breaking, gap, jailbreak, respite, happy chance, rift, intermission, severance, gaolbreak, falling out, hanging, prisonbreak, suspension, recess, faulting, breakout, geological fault, break, good luck, breaking, disruption, reprieve, open frame, abatement, break of serve, hiatus, breach, breakage, abeyance, suspension system, fault, pause, shift, fracture, time out, temporary removal, rupture, dangling
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
interruptionnoun
Synonyms:
hinderance, stop, obstruction, obstacle, impedimentinterruptionnoun
Synonyms:
intermission, pause, suspension, cessation, discontinuance
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "interruption":
adjournment, disruption, outage, blackout, interjection, discontinuance, break, interrupt, interruptions, discontinuation, hiatus, heckling, termination, interrupted, judgment, suspension, cessation, stoppage, trap, pause, breakdown
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1618 | break | |
#2265 | opening | |
#2666 | breaking | |
#3125 | spread | |
#3711 | shift | |
#4114 | gap | |
#4224 | crack | |
#4456 | judgment | |
#5045 | fault | |
#5067 | suspension | |
#6054 | termination | |
#6086 | hanging | |
#7583 | trap | |
#7706 | col | |
#7864 | breakdown | |
#9001 | breach | |
#10611 | pause | |
#11623 | interrupt | |
#14374 | disturbance | |
#14595 | fracture | |
#15079 | disruption | |
#15273 | interrupted | |
#16872 | cessation | |
#17400 | interruption | |
#18494 | breakout | |
#19598 | recess | |
#19980 | abatement | |
#20662 | outage | |
#21913 | adjournment | |
#22368 | respite | |
#23043 | severance | |
#23534 | blackout | |
#24292 | rupture | |
#24621 | rift | |
#25694 | dangling | |
#25991 | perturbation | |
#27266 | interruptions | |
#28330 | hiatus | |
#31174 | breakage | |
#34106 | dislocation | |
#34313 | intermission | |
#35039 | commotion | |
#37891 | flutter | |
#39177 | discontinuation | |
#48365 | stoppage | |
#50555 | discontinuance | |
#56356 | reprieve | |
#65516 | faulting | |
#83347 | interjection | |
#85297 | abeyance | |
#89948 | kerfuffle | |
#110721 | jailbreak | |
#120973 | heckling |
How to use interruption in a sentence?
I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption.
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
The original date for interruption of transmission was 2000. The next target was 2014 and it's currently 2016.
They will not achieve anything by attacking my record, which is known; I love my country and I'm honest, i will fight against the illegitimate interruption of my mandate using all the tools that the rule of law gives me.
We’ve had an interruption in our sport which was unforeseen and lengthy and when you look back at our bargaining history, there’s not been an interruption of that length in modern time, and for those reasons, I think the clarity of each side’s advances is something that is going to be measured within the framework of the recent influence of the pandemic on baseball.
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