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intermittent
UK /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/ US /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/
adj 2noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
cloudy, continual, most
VERB + INTERMITTENT
doing, tried
INTERMITTENT + NOUN
bugs, gunfire, lightning, morning, sunshine
PREP.
with
Definitions
adj
1
Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.
The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
2
Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.
noun
1
An intermittent fever or disease.
Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.
The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.
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The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
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Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
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Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]
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Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.
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The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.
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In disease, the agency of this system of vessels is an object of attentive study with the pathologist. To its influence in inflammation, we have already alluded; but it is no less exemplified in the m
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