Is this your crossword clue?
"interrupt" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often disrupt (7 letters).
Definitions
to break into or stop the flow of speech, action, or process
Word origin
From Middle English interrupten, derived from Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere (“to break apart/off, interrupt”), from inter (“between”) + rumpere (“to break”).
Used in a sentence
“A maverick politician repeatedly interrupted the debate by shouting.”
“Do not interrupt me in my course.”
“The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Cut in”9 letters
02“Terminate or end”9 letters
Not quite right?
"Search similar patterns."
I________