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Intermit - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a verb intermit

is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

intermit

English

Verb

(intermitt)
  • To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
  • *, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243:
  • *:Idlenessof body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
  • * Shakespeare
  • Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.

    Derived terms

    * intermittence * intermittency * intermittent

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.