Continuous
Continuous adjective - Going on and on without any interruptions.
Interrupted
Interrupted adjective - Discontinued temporarily.
Both words in one sentence
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This is used in what is probably the most infamous scene from The Exorcist III... a single continuous shot of a hospital nurse station in which nothing much happens for several minutes, abruptly interrupted at the very end by a killer lunging at the nurse with a pair of hedge shears.
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Few enemies are resistant to it, it cuts through lines of fighters easily, and unless the beam is interrupted, you can usually just keep it trained on an enemy to deal continuous damage until they're dead.
Source: Video Game / Steredenn
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Interrupted and Continuous. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/continuous/interrupted
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Interrupted or Continuous. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/continuous/interrupted.
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