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v. To suspend or cause to suspend activity temporarily or periodically.

v. To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

v. To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.

verb-intransitive. To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.

To put a temporary stop to; suspend or delay; interrupt: as, to intermit one's efforts.

To omit; pass by or over; neglect.

To cease or break off for a time; come to a temporary stop; stop or pause at intervals: as, a spring that intermits once in three minutes; an intermitting pulse.

Synonyms Subside, etc. See abate.

v. cease an action temporarily

"Those, then, who make use of ptisan in such diseases, should never for a day allow their vessels to be empty of it, if I may say so, but should use it and not intermit, unless it be necessary to stop for a time, in order to administer medicine or a clyster."

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interrupt    suspend    moderate    abate    respite