intermit
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- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 8
/ɪntəˈmɪt/(UK)
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/ɪntəˈmɪt/(UK) · /ɪntɚˈmɪt/
Definition of intermit
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(archaic, transitive)To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
“Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.”
“The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.”
“Idleness[…]of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.””
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Etymology
From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.
Words you can make from intermit
92 playable · top: INTERIM (9 pts)
Best play interim 9 points7-letter words
4 words6-letter words
9 words5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
31 words- EMIR 6 pts
- EMIT 6 pts
- ITEM 6 pts
- MIEN 6 pts
- MINE 6 pts
- MINI 6 pts
- MINT 6 pts
- MIRE 6 pts
- MIRI 6 pts
- MITE 6 pts
- MITT 6 pts
- RIME 6 pts
- TERM 6 pts
- TIME 6 pts
- TREM 6 pts
- TRIM 6 pts
- INTI 4 pts
- NETT 4 pts
- NITE 4 pts
- REIN 4 pts
- RENT 4 pts
- RITE 4 pts
- TEIN 4 pts
- TENT 4 pts
- TERN 4 pts
- TIER 4 pts
- TINE 4 pts
- TINT 4 pts
- TIRE 4 pts
- TITI 4 pts
- TRET 4 pts
3-letter words
18 words2-letter words
12 wordsHooks
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