Intermitting
111wavering — Synonyms and related words: adrift, aflicker, afloat, agnostic, alternating, alternation, ambiguous, amorphous, bickering, blinking, broken, capricious, capriciousness, careening, catchy, chancy, changeability, changeable, changeableness,… …
112wobbly — Synonyms and related words: aspen, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, chattering, choppy, desultory, deviative, dickey, dilapidated, disconnected, discontinuous, doddering, eccentric, erratic, faltering, fitful, flickering, fluctuant,… …
113Kirkmaiden — KIRKMAIDEN, a parish, in the county of Wigton, 16 miles (S. by E.) from Stranraer; containing, with the villages of Drumore and Port Logan, 2202 inhabitants, of whom 1700 are in the rural districts of the parish. This place, which occupies the …
114discontinuance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of continued connection Nouns discontinuance, discontinuity; disruption; disjunction, disconnection, interruption, letup, break, gap, interval, caesura; broken thread; intermission, half time. Slang …
115intermit — (v.) 1540s, from L. intermittere to leave off, omit, suspend, interrupt, neglect, from inter between (see INTER (Cf. inter )) + mittere to send (see MISSION (Cf. mission)). Related: Intermitted; intermitting; intermittingly …
116pick — 1. to steal OED notes a use in 1300, which makes it one of the oldest euphemisms in the language, and in regular use since then: A charge of picking and unlawfully intermitting with his neighbour s goods. (Hector, 1876) To pick a… …
117intermit — [ˌɪntə mɪt] verb (intermits, intermitting, intermitted) suspend or discontinue for a time. ↘(especially of a fever or pulse) stop for a time. Origin C16: from L. intermittere, from inter between + mittere let go …
118intermittent — I. a. Intermitting, remittent. II. n. Intermittent fever, remittent fever, fever and ague …
119defend — 1 Defend, protect, shield, guard, safeguard mean to keep secure from danger or against attack. Defend implies the use of means to ward off something that actually threatens or to repel something that actually attacks {raise a large army to defend …
120rest# — rest n Rest, repose, relaxation, leisure, ease, comfort are comparable when they mean freedom from toil or strain. Rest, the most general term, implies withdrawal from all labor or exertion and suggests an opposition to the term work; it does not …
