Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Interrupt

Interrupt , transitive verb

[Latin interruptus, past participle of interrumpere to interrupt; inter between + rumpere to break. See Rupture.]

1.
To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks of anyone speaking.
Do not interrupt me in my course. — Shakespeare
2.
To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of; as, the evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

Interrupt , past participle (adjectival)

[Latin interruptus, p. p.]

Broken; interrupted. [Obsolete] — Milton