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intermit

verb
/ɪntəˈmɪt/UK/ɪntɚˈmɪt/US

Etymology

From Latin intermittere, from inter- + mittere.

  1. derived from intermittere

Definitions

  1. To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically

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

    • Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
    • The bell doth toll for him, that thinks it doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion wrought upon him, he is united to God.
    • Idleness[…]of body is nothing but a kind of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at intermit. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at intermit. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at intermit

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA