Thesaurus: intermission

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1. n. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
2. n. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes.
3. n. The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
4. n. Intervention; interposition.
5. n. the act of suspending activity temporarily
6. n. a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
7. 1. The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance. B. Jonson. 2. Cessation for a time; an intervening period of time; an interval; a temporary pause; as, to labor without intermission; an intermission of ten minutes. Rest or intermission none I find. Milton. 3. (Med.) The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. 4. Intervention; interposition. [Obs.] Heylin. Syn. -- Cessation; interruption; interval; pause; stop; rest; suspension. See Cessation.
8. The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space oftime between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entirecessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever.
9. n:100 n. the act of suspending activity temporarily