0 present participle of interrupt
1 to stop a person from speaking for a short period by something you say or do:
Please feel free to interrupt me if you don't understand anything.
Please go on with what you're doing and don't let us interrupt you.
The senator thoroughly squelched the journalist who tried to interrupt him during his speech.
He's very impatient and always interrupts me mid-sentence.
I don't do any serious writing at the university because my students are always interrupting.
If this is true, doing theatre signifies interrupting our perpetual performance.
So a running server should be able to re-read its configuration file without interrupting operations.
