Intermit

//ɪntɚˈmɪt//

Synonyms for "intermit" (75 found)

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Closest matches (15)

pause abate alternate arrest be here again break break off call a break call time cease check circle cleanse cleanse away

Verb(1 words)

Strong matches (23)

come again come and go come around come round come round again come up again cut off cycle declare a recess defer delay deliver discharge fluctuate free free from give release give respite hold off hold over

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hold up interlude

Verb(1 words)

Related words (37)

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More general

4 entries

break up cut off disrupt interrupt

Synonyms

1 entries

Related terms

2 entries

intermission mission

derived

8 entries

intermittedly intermittence intermittency intermittent intermitter intermittingly unintermitted unintermitting

derived from

1 entries

related to

7 entries

cease intermission interrupt periodically stop suspend temporarily

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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.”

Source: wiktionary

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