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