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Intermit vs Intromit - What's the difference?

intermit | intromit |

As verbs the difference between intermit and intromit

is that intermit is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend while intromit is (legal|scotland) to intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.

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

    intromit

    English

    Verb

  • (legal, Scotland) To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.
  • To send in or put in; to insert or introduce.
  • (Greenhill)
  • To allow to pass in; to admit.
  • * Holder
  • Glass in the window intromits light, without cold.
    (Webster 1913)