intermit means To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
INTERMIT — [Verb] To cease or suspend an activity temporarily or at intervals. From the Latin intermittere, from inter- ("between, among") + mittere ("to send, let go"). Unlike "suspend," which implies a formal, authoritative, and often indefinite halt, or "pause," which suggests a simple, brief stop for breath, to intermit is to engineer a cessation inherent to the process itself—a scheduled, recurrent letting-go. It is the measured click of an old sprinkler ceasing its arc, the lighthouse beacon vanishing into the sweep of darkness only to reappear, or the way chronic pain mercifully abates, its return a certainty. This is a grammar of absence that defines the very rhythm of presence.
verb
- To interrupt, to stop or cease temporarily or periodically; to suspend.“Pray to the gods to intermit the plague.”