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S: (v) interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off (make a break in) "We interrupt the program for the following messages"

S: (v) cut, cut off (cease, stop) "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
S: (v) punctuate (interrupt periodically) "Her sharp questions punctuated the speaker's drone"
S: (v) break (interrupt the flow of current in) "break a circuit"
S: (v) put away, put aside (turn away from and put aside, perhaps temporarily) "it's time for you to put away childish things"
S: (v) pause, intermit, break (cease an action temporarily) "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch"

S: (v) rest, breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather (take a short break from one's activities in order to relax)
S: (v) take five (take a break for five minutes) "The musicians took five during the rehearsal"
S: (v) take ten (take a ten minute break) "The players took ten during the long rehearsal"

S: (v) chime in, cut in, put in, butt in, chisel in, barge in, break in (break into a conversation) "her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation"

S: (v) interrupt, disrupt (interfere in someone else's activity) "Please don't interrupt me while I'm on the phone"

S: (v) cut in (interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner) "Jim always cuts in!"
S: (v) cut short (cause to end earlier than intended) "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"

S: (v) burst in on, burst upon (spring suddenly) "He burst upon our conversation"
S: (v) heckle (challenge aggressively)
S: (v) interject, come in, interpose, put in, throw in, inject (to insert between other elements) "She interjected clever remarks"
S: (v) jam, block (interfere with or prevent the reception of signals) "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station"

S: (v) barrage jam (jam an entire frequency spectrum) "During the Cold War, the Soviets routinely barrage jammed to interfere with transmissions from the West"
S: (v) point jam (jam a narrow band of frequencies) "We can counter point-jamming effectively"
S: (v) spot jam (jam a single frequency) "This operator is spot-jammed"
S: (v) blanket jam (jam a broad spectrum of frequencies to affect all communications in the area except for directional antenna communications)

S: (v) stop, stop over (interrupt a trip) "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"

S: (v) call (make a stop in a harbour) "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow"
S: (v) lay over, stop over (interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight) "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"

S: (v) take off, take time off (take time off from work; stop working temporarily)

S: (v) break, break off, discontinue, stop (prevent completion) "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

S: (v) end, terminate (bring to an end or halt) "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

S: (v) change, alter, modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"

S: (v) cut, cut off (cease, stop) "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation"
S: (v) cut off, chop off, lop off (remove by or as if by cutting) "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch"
S: (v) cut off, cut out (cut off and stop) "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"
S: (v) chip, knap, cut off, break off (break a small piece off from) "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
S: (v) amputate, cut off (remove surgically) "amputate limbs"

S: (adj) severed, cut off (detached by cutting) "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm"