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Difference Between Interrupted and Disturbed

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Interrupted

To break the continuity or uniformity of
Rain interrupted our baseball game.

Disturbed

Unsettled, broken up, or altered in structure or function
Disturbed soil.

Interrupted

To stop (someone engaged in an activity) by saying or doing something
The baby interrupted me while I was on the phone.

Disturbed

Being or resulting from being emotionally or mentally troubled
Taught disturbed children.
Sent disturbed messages.

Interrupted

To cause an activity to stop by saying or doing something.

Disturbed

Showing symptoms of mental illness, severe psychosis, or neurosis.
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Interrupted

A signal to a computer that stops the execution of a running program so that another action can be performed.

Disturbed

Extremely alarmed; shocked.

Interrupted

A circuit that conveys a signal stopping the execution of a running program.

Disturbed

Simple past tense and past participle of disturb

Interrupted

Simple past tense and past participle of interrupt

Disturbed

Having the place or position changed;
The disturbed books and papers on her desk
Disturbed grass showed where the horse had passed
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Interrupted

Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.

Disturbed

Afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief;
Too upset to say anything
Spent many disquieted moments
Distressed about her son's leaving home
Lapsed into disturbed sleep
Worried parents
A worried frown
One last worried check of the sleeping children

Interrupted

Irregular; - said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf.

Disturbed

Emotionally unstable and having difficulty coping with personal relationships

Interrupted

Discontinued temporarily;
We resumed the interrupted discussion

Disturbed

Lacking order or stability;
These unsettled times

Interrupted

Intermittently stopping and starting;
Fitful (or interrupted) sleep
Off-and-on static

Disturbed

Affected with madness or insanity;
A man who had gone mad

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