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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Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..
Pause :: Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Ague :: Ague (n.) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits..
Twinkling :: Twinkling (n.) A shining with intermitted light; a scintillation; a sparkling; as, the twinkling of the stars..
Intermitted :: Intermitted (imp. & p. p.) of Intermi.
Tertian :: Tertian (n.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day..
Pause :: Pause (n.) To be intermitted; to cease; as, the music pauses..
Intermittently :: Intermittently (adv.) With intermissions; in an intermittent manner; intermittingly.
Intermittence :: Intermittence (n.) Act or state of intermitting; intermission.
Antiperiodic :: Antiperiodic (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers..
Intermitting :: Intermitting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Intermi.
Incessancy :: Incessancy (n.) The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.
Inter- :: Inter- () A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit..
Shimmer :: Shimmer (v. i.) To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
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..
Quotidian :: Quotidian (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day..
Semitertian :: Semitertian (n.) An intermittent combining the characteristics of a tertian and a quotidian.
Neuralgia :: Neuralgia (n.) A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion..
Spasmodic :: Spasmodic (a.) Soon relaxed or exhausted; convulsive; intermittent; as, spasmodic zeal or industry..
Tetany :: Tetany (n.) A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms..
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