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1. Noun

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare to you that his conduct -- but I can not speak of that, here."

2. Noun

breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
Vocabulary classified under Literature and rhetoric
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