Allow
Allow verb - To give permission for or to approve of.
Interrupt
Interrupt verb - To cause a disruption in a conversation or discussion.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Scratch Damage - Fortunately, they don't allow those 1-point hits to interrupt you.
Source: Video Game / Tales of Vesperia -
Act 5: Halfway through, you arrive just too late to interrupt Baal from getting an object that will allow him to walk right through the front door of the Worldstone Keep.
Source: Video Game / Diablo II -
Fist, John combined his glasses with his dad's PDA to create a set of glasses, which would (somehow...?) allow him to communicate with his friends via Pesterchum without having to interrupt anything else he was doing.
Source: Goggles Do Something Unusual
Cite this Source
Interrupt and Allow. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/interrupt
Allow & Interrupt. N.p., 2016. Web. 13 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/interrupt>.
Interrupt or Allow. 2016. Accessed August 13, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/allow/interrupt.
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