Modifies a noun

• brome: A PhD study has been undertaken on the ecology of interrupted brome at the University of Liverpool.

• suture: Three or four interrupted sutures are used to fix the mesh superiorly.

• sleep: Can cause waking in the middle of the night or interrupted sleep.

• tone: A fast interrupted dial tone tells you that a message has been left.

• learner: They are in a cycle of interrupted learning and schools have a responsibility to support interrupted learners.

• status: The interrupted status of the thread is cleared by this method.

Used with adjective complement

• get: Added to this was the helping with the refreshments, I kept getting interrupted, sorry Peter.

• remain: Ongoing surveillance in formerly endemic Central and South American countries confirms that poliovirus transmission remains interrupted.