Verb

(en verb)

To postpone.

The trial was adjourned for a week.

To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.

* Barrow

It is a common practice to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.

To end or suspend an event.

The court will adjourn for lunch.

(intransitive, formal, uncommon) To move from one place to another.

After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.

Verb

(en verb)

To disturb or halt an ongoing process or action by interfering suddenly.

* Shakespeare

Do not interrupt me in my course.

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To divide; to separate; to break the monotony of.

The evenness of the road was not interrupted by a single hill.

(computing) To assert to a computer that an exceptional condition must be handled.