interrupt

1. (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.Examples: "A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting."; "Do not interrupt me in my course."; "One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable."ambitransitive

2. (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.Examples: "The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill."transitive

3. (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.Examples: "The packet receiver circuit interrupted the microprocessor."transitive