intermit

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ɪntəˈmɪt/(UK)
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/ɪntəˈmɪt/(UK) · /ɪntɚˈmɪt/

Definition of intermit

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (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.

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