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

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intermit

present participle of intermit

simple past tense and past participle of intermit

Stopping or starting at intervals.

Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.

(medicine, dated) An intermittent fever or disease.

The state of being intermittent; periodicity.

The state of being sporadic or intermittent; a lack of flow or fluency.

plural of intermittence