Definition of intermit

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Intermit (v. i.) To cease for a time or at intervals; to moderate; to be intermittent, as a fever..

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Intermission :: Intermission (n.) The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Semitertian :: Semitertian (n.) An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.
Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession..
Spasmodic :: Spasmodic (a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry..
Pause :: Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Heat :: Heat (n.) A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three..
Semitertian :: Semitertian (a.) Having the characteristics of both a tertian and a quotidian intermittent.
Intermittent :: Intermittent (a.) Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever..
Intermitted :: Intermitted (imp. & p. p.) of Intermi.
Intermissive :: Intermissive (a.) Having temporary cessations; not continual; intermittent.
Tetany :: Tetany (n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms..
Antiperiodic :: Antiperiodic (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers..
Intermit :: Intermit (v. t.) To cause to cease for a time, or at intervals; to interrupt; to suspend..
Intermitting :: Intermitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intermi.
Intermittingly :: Intermittingly (adv.) With intermissions; at intervals.
Twinkling :: Twinkling (n.) A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars..
Interrupted :: Interrupted (a.) Broken; intermitted; suddenly stopped.
Quotidian :: Quotidian (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day..
Everliving :: Everliving (a.) Continual; incessant; unintermitted.
Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..
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