1. Breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)

Derived forms: aposiopeses

See also: aposiopetic

Type of: rhetorical device

Encyclopedia: Aposiopesis

• middle name
• middle of the roader
• Middle Paleolithic
• middle school
• middle temporal vein
• middle term
• middle thyroid vein
• middle watch
• middle west
• middle-aged
• middle-aged man
• middle-class
• middle-ear deafness
• middle-level
• middle-of-the-road
• middle-sized
• middlebreaker
• middlebrow
• middleman
• middlemost
• Middleton
• middleware
• middleweight
• middling
• middlingly