Intermit vs Leave_off - What's the difference?
intermit | leave_off | Related terms |
To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.
*, vol. I, New York 2001, p.243:
*:Idlenessof body is nothing but a kind of of benumbing laziness, intermitting exercise, which, if we may believe Fernelius, “[…] makes them unapt to do anything whatever.”
* Shakespeare
(idiomatic) To omit.
(informal) To desist; to cease.
To stop with a view to resuming at a later point.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
*:Picking up eight years after The Dark Knight left off , the film finds Gotham enjoying a tenuous peace based on Harvey Dent’s moral ideals rather than the ugly truth of his demise.
English phrasal verbs
Intermit is a related term of leave_off.
As verbs the difference between intermit and leave_off
is that intermit is to interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend while leave_off is (idiomatic) to omit.intermit
English
Verb
(intermitt)- Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.
Derived terms
* intermittence * intermittency * intermittentleave_off
English
Verb
(head)- Leave off hitting him!