interrupting
v.v. stopping someone while they are talking or doing something. It often feels a bit rude because you are breaking their flow.
v. breaking the continuity of an action, speech, or process. The present participle of 'interrupt'; takes a direct object in formal use, but appears intransitively in conversation.
I am sorry for interrupting your lunch.
The student kept interrupting the teacher with questions before the instructions were finished.
By constantly interrupting the witness during the cross-examination, the lawyer attempted to prevent a coherent narrative from reaching the jury.
The verb is often used in the progressive tense to describe an ongoing annoyance.
Stop to interrupt me.Stop interrupting me.The verb 'stop' requires the gerund form '-ing' when it means to cease an ongoing action.