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intermit

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8 lettersPronunciation /ɪntəˈmɪt/Part of speech verbSorted eiimnrttStarts with IEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. cease an action temporarily

Word origin

From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.

Used in a sentence

  • Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
  • 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.
  • 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.”

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