interrupt

verb1 of 2

to cause something to stop happening for a time

• “The students interrupted the protest and returned to the classrooms.”Tatoeba
• “People tend to interrupt me because I speak too slowly.”Tatoeba

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noun2 of 2

An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.