English words for 'To interrupt (someone speaking).'
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verb
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
- To interrupt someone while they are speaking.
- (Uno) To play a card that matches the top card in the discard pile out of turn.
- To join in on an activity quickly.
- (US slang) To initiate into an organization, usually a gang, with violence.
- To enter something quickly, usually a mode of transport.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, in.
verb
- (intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
- (ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level.
- (transitive, colloquial) To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
- (intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means.
- (transitive, slang) To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.
- (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- intrude on uninvited
- start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- break so as to fall inward
- break into a conversation
verb
- (transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
- (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
- cause to end earlier than intended
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- interrupt before its natural or planned end
adj
noun
- The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
- (linguistics) the act of breaking into someone else’s speech.
- A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
adv
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
adj
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.
prep
verb
adj
- Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
- Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
- Curt in manner.
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
- exceedingly sudden and unexpected
- dangerously steep
- surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
noun
verb
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
- (transitive) To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
- (transitive) To offer (one's help or services).
- (intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
- (intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- to insert between other elements
- to put forth by way of intervention
- be or come between
verb
- To intrude or interrupt.
- (surfing) To begin riding a wave in front of someone else whose legitimate turn it is.
- To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.
- To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
- (transitive, slang) To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (someone) a share of something.
- When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas.
- (intransitive, slang) To take a share of something; to push one's way into a project, game or plan.
- To take up a portion of.
- allow someone to have a share or profit
- interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner
- drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably
- mix in with cutting motions
- break into a conversation
verb
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- interfere in someone else's activity
- make a break in
- terminate or end
- destroy the peace or tranquility of
noun
noun
- The act of interpelling: interruption.
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- (politics) The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned about and explain an act, a policy or a point raised during a debate.
- (philosophy) The act of interpellating: the act of identification.
- (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy
verb
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
- (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
- To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
- To hit.
- (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
- To stab.
- To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
- (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
noun
- (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
- (countable) Clipping of jukebox.
- (sports) A feint.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
- The neck of a bird.
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
intj
noun
- (computing) Ellipsis of wait state.
- A delay.
- (in the plural, UK) Musicians who sing or play at night or in the early morning, especially at Christmas time; serenaders; musical watchmen. [formerly waites, wayghtes.]
- An ambush.
- the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something)
- time during which some action is awaited
verb
- (intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
- (intransitive) To remain faithful to one’s partner or betrothed during a prolonged period of absence.
- (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.
- stay in one place and anticipate or expect something
- look forward to the probable occurrence of
- serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant
- wait before acting
noun
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- An interruption; something interjected
- an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion
- (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
noun
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted
- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
- (editing, content analysis) That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.
- (mathematics, sciences) The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
- (music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
- (music) The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.
- (computing) The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
noun
- (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
- (botany) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).
- (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
- the mark (‘'’) used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
- address to an absent or imaginary person
verb
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
intj
noun
verb
- To disturb or trouble (someone).
- (figurative, often poetic) To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
- To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
- (chiefly military) To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
- (British, dialectal, agriculture) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
- (by extension, especially in command economies) To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
- To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
- (by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
- To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1 sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
- Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
- To use (harsh language).
- To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
- (impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
- take by force
- blow hard
- attack by storm; attack suddenly
noun
- A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
- (Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”).
- A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
- (pathology) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
- (military) A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
- (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
- (meteorology) A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
- (by extension) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
- A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
- Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
- a violent commotion or disturbance
- a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
noun
- a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
- a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
- (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
- (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
- A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To cease to support; to halt. [with on ‘someone or something’]
- (intransitive) To unplug or cut power to a machine.
- (intransitive, informal) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, informal) To turn off life support.
- (intransitive, informal) To cease production or publication.
- prevent from happening or continuing
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic, British, informal) To interrupt a discussion for the purpose of making a comment.
- (intransitive, card games) To ante; to put into the pot the amount of chips or money required to continue.
- (transitive, slang) To join in (something); to butt in or contribute (something) to a conversation; to say (something).
- (intransitive, golf) To put a chip shot in the hole.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To make a contribution; help in a small way; especially, to pay for a part of something.
- (intransitive) To contribute (for, to, or toward something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To contribute (something).
- contribute to some cause
noun
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- The act or process of cutting off.
- (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
- shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
- the act of cutting something off
noun
- a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)
- a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor
- speech you make to yourself
- A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.
- (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
- (drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
verb
intj
noun
- (euphemistic, uncountable) Profanity.
- (uncountable) The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
- (countable, uncountable) A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
- A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
- (uncountable) A manner of expression.
- (uncountable) The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
- (uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
- (countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
- (countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
- (computing, countable) A computer language; a machine language.
- (uncountable) The ability to communicate using words.
- a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline
- the mental faculty or power of vocal communication
- (language) communication by word of mouth
- a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
- the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number
- the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication
verb
verb
noun
- (uncountable) An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
- A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
- (British, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
- (uncountable) A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
- (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
verb
- To allow another person to intervene to make a point or ask a question whilst one is delivering a speech.
- (chiefly imperative, as command to the crew) To begin rowing.
- To allow the expression of (a pent-up emotion, grief, etc.).
- To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by.
- To collapse or break under physical stresses.
- To yield to persistent persuasion.
- To give precedence to other road users.
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- stop operating or functioning
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
noun
- the speech act of contradicting someone
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
- opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
- (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
- (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
noun
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- (specifically) A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- (rare) That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
adj
verb
adj
noun
intj
- Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
- Used to sarcastically or sardonically indicate agreement with the previous statement.
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- (computing) Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
adj
adv
name
noun
verb
verb
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- (transitive, LGBTQ slang) To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (ambitransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- make jokes or quips
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them
- cause to retch or choke
- prevent from speaking out
- be too tight; rub or press
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
noun
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (LGBTQ slang) A shocking or surprising thing.
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- (figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
- a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
- restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
pron
- (colloquial) The person(s) being addressed.
- Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
- (colloquial) Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
- (Northumbria) Me (in all contexts).
- People in general.
- We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula:
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with certain verbs such as give, get, fetch, etc.) Me.
- Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
- Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
det
noun
verb
- (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
- (transitive) To terminate (a business).
- (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
adj
intj
verb
- (colloquial) To interfere with.
- (colloquial) To diss; to put down.
- (colloquial) To joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner.
- (colloquial, especially African-American Vernacular) To admire, enjoy, or approve of.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mess, with. To eat with.
noun
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
verb
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
noun
- The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.
- (linguistics) the act of breaking into someone else’s speech.
- A time interval during which there is a cessation of something.
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
noun
- The act of interpelling: interruption.
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- (politics) The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned about and explain an act, a policy or a point raised during a debate.
- (philosophy) The act of interpellating: the act of identification.
- (parliament) a parliamentary procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy
noun
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- An interruption; something interjected
- an abrupt emphatic exclamation expressing emotion
- (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
noun
- the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted
- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
- (editing, content analysis) That which is introduced or inserted; in contexts of content analysis of centuries-old texts, especially something foreign or spurious.
- (mathematics, sciences) The process of estimating the value of a function at a point from its values at nearby points.
- (music) An abrupt change in elements, with continuation of the first idea.
- (music) The use of a melody from a previously recorded song, but recreated rather than sampled from that recording.
- (computing) The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
noun
- (rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
- (botany) An arrangement of chlorophyll grains perpendicular to the outer surface of plant cells, as opposed to epistrophe (an arrangement on the outer surface).
- (orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
- the mark (‘'’) used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
- address to an absent or imaginary person
noun
- a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
- a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
- (rare) A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.
- (Classical prosody) Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
- A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
- (typography) The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
noun
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- The act or process of cutting off.
- (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
- shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
- the act of cutting something off
noun
- a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)
- a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor
- speech you make to yourself
- A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation.
- (comedy) A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment.
- (drama, authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters.
verb
noun
- the speech act of contradicting someone
- (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
- opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
- (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
- (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
- (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
- (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.
noun
- Something spoken to fill up an uncomfortable pause in speech; a filled pause or filler.
- (specifically) A person appointed or hired to fill a position temporarily until a permanent appointment or hire can be made; a temp.
- A short-term fix or temporary measure used until something better can be obtained; that which serves as an expedient in an emergency; a band-aid solution.
- (rare) That which stops up or fills a gap or hole.
- something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
adj
verb
noun
- One who speaks; a speaker.
- (grammar) A particular way of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, which indicates the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses.
- (literature) A particular style or way of writing that expresses a certain tone or feeling.
- (music) In harmony, an independent vocal or instrumental part in a piece of composition.
- Sound uttered by the mouth, especially by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character.
- (Internet, IRC) A flag associated with a user on a channel, determining whether they can send messages to the channel.
- The tone or sound emitted by an object.
- (figurative) An expressed opinion, choice, will, desire, or wish; the right or ability to make such expression or to have it considered.
- (phonetics) Sound made through vibration of the vocal cords; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; — distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in whispering and voiceless consonants.
- The faculty or power of utterance.
- That which is communicated; message; meaning.
- expressing in coherent verbal form
- A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.
- a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated
- the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech
- something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression
- an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- (metonymy) a singer
- the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music
- a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance
- the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract
- (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes
- the ability to speak
verb
- (television, film) To act as a voice actor to portray a character.
- (transitive) To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce
- (transitive) To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of
- (transitive, Internet, IRC) To assign the voice flag to a user on IRC, permitting them to send messages to the channel.
- (transitive, phonology) To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath.
- give voice to
- utter with vibrating vocal chords
verb
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- To remove by cutting.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
- To interrupt someone while they are speaking.
- (Uno) To play a card that matches the top card in the discard pile out of turn.
- To join in on an activity quickly.
- (US slang) To initiate into an organization, usually a gang, with violence.
- To enter something quickly, usually a mode of transport.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, in.
verb
- (intransitive) To interrupt one's conversation; speak before another person has finished speaking.
- (ambitransitive, ergative, idiomatic) To reach a state of functioning more smoothly through use or wear; to cause (something, or someone, new) to undergo this change.
- (transitive, idiomatic) Starting something brand new or at a new level.
- (transitive, colloquial) To take the virginity of a girl, to deflower.
- (intransitive) To enter a place by force or illicit means.
- (transitive, slang) To initiate a new person into prostitution or prison sex acts.
- (transitive, of a horse) To tame; make obedient; to train to follow orders of the owner.
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- intrude on uninvited
- start in a certain activity, enterprise, or role
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- break so as to fall inward
- break into a conversation
verb
- (transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
- (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
- cause to end earlier than intended
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- interrupt before its natural or planned end
adj
verb
adj
- Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
- Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
- Curt in manner.
- Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
- (botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
- exceedingly sudden and unexpected
- dangerously steep
- surprisingly and unceremoniously brusque in manner
- marked by sudden changes in subject and sharp transitions
noun
verb
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation by introducing a different subject or making a comment.
- (transitive) To insert something (or oneself) between other things.
- (transitive) To offer (one's help or services).
- (intransitive) To be inserted between parts or things; to come between.
- (intransitive) To intervene in a dispute, or in a conversation.
- get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
- to insert between other elements
- to put forth by way of intervention
- be or come between
verb
- To intrude or interrupt.
- (surfing) To begin riding a wave in front of someone else whose legitimate turn it is.
- To pull in front of another vehicle in traffic, especially to do so dangerously or unfairly.
- To join a queue in the middle, as opposed to at the back.
- (transitive, slang) To include; to allow (someone) to participate in something.
- (transitive, slang) To give (someone) a share of something.
- When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas.
- (intransitive, slang) To take a share of something; to push one's way into a project, game or plan.
- To take up a portion of.
- allow someone to have a share or profit
- interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner
- drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably
- mix in with cutting motions
- break into a conversation
verb
- (ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.
- (transitive) To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.
- (transitive, computing) To assert to (a computer) that an exceptional condition must be handled.
- interfere in someone else's activity
- make a break in
- terminate or end
- destroy the peace or tranquility of
noun
verb
- (transitive) To interrupt a conversation with an unrelated topic.
- (transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
- To thrust with the pelvis, in particular for sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
- To hit.
- (intransitive) To deceive or outmaneuver someone using a feint, especially in American football or soccer.
- To stab.
- To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke.
- (intransitive) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
noun
- (Southern US, countable) A roadside cafe or bar, especially one with dancing and sometimes prostitution.
- (countable) Clipping of jukebox.
- (sports) A feint.
- (uncountable, music) A genre of electronic music native to Chicago, noted for its fast, abstract rhythms; see footwork.
- The neck of a bird.
- (football) a deceptive move made by a football player
- a small roadside establishment in the southeastern United States where you can eat and drink and dance to music provided by a jukebox
verb
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
intj
noun
verb
- To disturb or trouble (someone).
- (figurative, often poetic) To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
- To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
- (chiefly military) To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
- (British, dialectal, agriculture) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
- (by extension, especially in command economies) To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
- To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
- (by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
- To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1 sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
- Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
- To use (harsh language).
- To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
- (impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
- take by force
- blow hard
- attack by storm; attack suddenly
noun
- A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
- (Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”).
- A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
- (pathology) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
- (military) A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
- (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
- (meteorology) A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
- (by extension) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
- A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
- Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
- a violent commotion or disturbance
- a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
verb
- (intransitive, informal) To cease to support; to halt. [with on ‘someone or something’]
- (intransitive) To unplug or cut power to a machine.
- (intransitive, informal) To commit suicide.
- (intransitive, informal) To turn off life support.
- (intransitive, informal) To cease production or publication.
- prevent from happening or continuing
verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic, British, informal) To interrupt a discussion for the purpose of making a comment.
- (intransitive, card games) To ante; to put into the pot the amount of chips or money required to continue.
- (transitive, slang) To join in (something); to butt in or contribute (something) to a conversation; to say (something).
- (intransitive, golf) To put a chip shot in the hole.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To make a contribution; help in a small way; especially, to pay for a part of something.
- (intransitive) To contribute (for, to, or toward something).
- (transitive, idiomatic) To contribute (something).
- contribute to some cause
verb
noun
- (uncountable) An advanced practice that cultivates such energy.
- A metal target that emits a sound when it has been hit.
- (British, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
- (uncountable) A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi.
- (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a loud resonant sound when struck with a soft hammer.
- a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick
- a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
verb
- To allow another person to intervene to make a point or ask a question whilst one is delivering a speech.
- (chiefly imperative, as command to the crew) To begin rowing.
- To allow the expression of (a pent-up emotion, grief, etc.).
- To be followed, succeeded, or replaced by.
- To collapse or break under physical stresses.
- To yield to persistent persuasion.
- To give precedence to other road users.
- move in order to make room for someone for something
- stop operating or functioning
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- end resistance, as under pressure or force
verb
- (transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth.
- (transitive, LGBTQ slang) To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.
- (intransitive) To experience the vomiting reflex.
- (ambitransitive) To choke; to retch.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means.
- (transitive) To pry or hold open by means of a gag.
- (transitive) To cause to heave with nausea.
- make jokes or quips
- make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit
- tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them
- cause to retch or choke
- prevent from speaking out
- be too tight; rub or press
- struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake
noun
- A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.
- A joke or other mischievous prank.
- (LGBTQ slang) A shocking or surprising thing.
- A convulsion of the upper digestive tract.
- (law) An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject.
- (figurative) Any suppression of freedom of speech.
- Mycteroperca microlepis, a species of grouper.
- (film) a device or trick used to create a practical effect; a gimmick
- a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
- restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting
verb
- (ergative, derogatory, often imperative) Of a person, to stop talking (said by someone, often one in authority, after one has said something annoying, irrelevant, or false, during a period of peace and quiet, or when one is not allowed to talk) or arguing, or (of a person or thing) making noise.
- (transitive) To put (someone or something) in a secure enclosed space, such as a room or container.
- (transitive) To terminate (a business).
- (transitive) To close (a building) so that no one can enter.
- cause to be quiet or not talk
- place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape
- refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent
adj
intj
verb
- (colloquial) To interfere with.
- (colloquial) To diss; to put down.
- (colloquial) To joke around with or dupe someone, in either a friendly or unfriendly manner.
- (colloquial, especially African-American Vernacular) To admire, enjoy, or approve of.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see mess, with. To eat with.
adv
- so as to interrupt
- at some point or distance before a goal is reached
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
- at a disadvantage
- in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner
- without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold
- clean across
- Without achieving a goal or requirement.
- Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
- (finance) With a negative ownership position.
- (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing higher than normal; opposite of full.
- Unawares.
adj
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- lacking foresight or scope
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (golf) Of an approach shot or putt, that falls short of the green or the hole.
- Having little duration.
- (cricket) Of a ball, bowled so that it bounces relatively far from the batsman.
- (colloquial) Undiluted; neat.
- (finance) Being in a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying security declines in the future.
- Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
- Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied, especially with money; scantily furnished; lacking.
- Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
- (baking) Of pastries or (metallurgy) of materials, brittle, crumbly.
- (gambling) Of betting odds, offering a small return for the money wagered.
- Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
- Abrupt, brief, pointed, curt.
- Of a person, living being, or object, having a comparatively small height.
- (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of another).
- (by extension) Doubtful of, skeptical of.
- (cricket) Of a fielder or fielding position, that is relatively close to the batsman.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
- (Internet) A short-form vertical video.
- (finance) A short seller.
- A short film.
- A summary account.
- (US, slang) An automobile.
- (finance) A short sale or short position.
- (baseball) A shortstop.
- A short version of a garment in a particular size.
- (phonetics) A short phone (such as a vowel) or syllable.
- A short circuit.
- (programming) An integer variable having a smaller range than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
verb
- create a short circuit in
- cheat someone by not returning them enough money
- (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
- (intransitive, of an electrical circuit) To short circuit.
- (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for delivery at a later date in hopes of profiting from a decline in the price; to sell short.
- (transitive, informal) To provide with an amount smaller than that agreed or labeled; to shortchange.