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przerywać — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • discontinue verb To stop making, selling, or continuing something.
  • interrupt verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
  • intervene verb To become involved in a situation in order to change or stop what is happening.
  • pause verb To stop something briefly, intending to continue later.

Senses

przerywać is used for these senses in English:

  • discontinue (transitive) To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying.
  • interrupt (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
  • intervene (ambitransitive) To say (something) in the middle of a conversation or discussion between other people, or to respond to a situation involving other people.
  • pause (intransitive) To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.

interrupt — full definition

  1. verb To break in on someone who is speaking or on an ongoing action.
  2. noun Computing: a signal that makes a computer pause its current task to deal with something more urgent.

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