Associations to the word «Intermit»

Wiktionary

INTERMIT, verb. (transitive) (now rare) To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.

Dictionary definition

INTERMIT, verb. Cease an action temporarily; "We pause for station identification"; "let's break for lunch".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope