{
    "term": "interrupt",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "interrupt",
            "heSheIt": "interrupts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "interrupted",
        "pastParticiple": "interrupted",
        "ingForm": "interrupting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to say or do something that makes somebody stop what they are saying or doing",
            "sensetop": "interrupt with somethinginterrupt somebody/somethinginterrupt somebody/something with somethinginterrupt + speechinterrupt somebody + speech",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Sorry to interrupt, but there's someone to see you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Would you mind not interrupting with questions all the time?",
                    "contextForm": "interrupt with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hope I'm not interrupting you.",
                    "contextForm": "interrupt somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were interrupted by a knock at the door."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The President's speech was constantly interrrupted with boos and jeers.",
                    "contextForm": "interrupt somebody/something with something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘I have a question,’ she interrupted.",
                    "contextForm": "interrupt + speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Just listen for a moment,’ he interrupted her angrily.",
                    "contextForm": "interrupt somebody + speech"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘He's kidding,’ I interrupted hastily."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I didn't manage to finish the report. I kept getting interrupted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I thought it better not to interrupt her with any comment."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm sorry to interrupt, but there's someone here to see you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It was all irrelevant, but I didn't dare interrupt him in mid-flow."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What was I saying, before we were so rudely interrupted?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘What's his name?’ John interrupted."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Please stop interrupting all the time!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sh! You're always interrupting me!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sorry to interrupt your dinner."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["impatiently", "rudely", "angrily"],
                "verb + interrupt": ["be sorry to", "(not) dare (to)"],
                "preposition": ["with"],
                "phrases": ["get interrupted"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to stop something for a short time",
            "sensetop": "interrupt something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The game was interrupted several times by rain."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We interrupt this programme to bring you an important news bulletin."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Transport services were constantly interrupted by air raids."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their luncheon was brutally interrupted by gunfire."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The morning's work was constantly interrupted by phone calls."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to stop a line, surface, view, etc. from being even or continuous",
            "sensetop": "interrupt something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There were no other buildings to interrupt the view of the valley."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpt/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupt__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpts/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪd/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupted__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpt/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupt__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌpts/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪd/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupted__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌɪntəˈrʌptɪŋ/",
                "audio": "in/interrupt/interrupting__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Latin interrupt- ‘broken, interrupted’, from the verb interrumpere, from inter- ‘between’ + rumpere ‘to break’."
}