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

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  1. v. t. To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend.
  2. v. i. To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever.
  3. v. cease an action temporarily
  4. To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend. Pray to the gods to intermit the plague. Shak. To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever. Pope.
  5. To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; tosuspend.Pray to the gods to intermit the plague. Shak.
  6. v cease an action temporarily