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Intermit

//ɪntɚˈmɪt// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend. archaic, transitive

    "Pray to the gods to intermit the plague."

  2. 2
    cease an action temporarily wordnet

Etymology

From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.

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