interclude

English

Etymology

From Latin intercludere, interclusum; inter (“between”) + claudere (“to shut”). See close.

Verb

1. (transitive) To shut off or cut off from a place or course, by something intervening; to intercept; to interrupt.

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   • Boyle

     So all passage of external air into the receiver may be intercluded.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interclude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

interclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of intercludere

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) interclūde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of interclūdō