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/ˌɪntərsˈɛpt/ /ˌɪnərsˈɛpt/ Listen

Intercept

verb

(past & past part. intercepted; pres. part. intercepting)

Seize on its way. Synonym: stop.

Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information. Synonyms: bug, tap, wiretap. "Is this hotel room bugged?"

noun

The point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis.

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"Intercept" Quotes from Famous Books

... intercept the tutor at the door. Lingering at the head of the stair, Frances heard her name ...

— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown

... right, Fresno was gaining on his pursuers. He was out of range now, but the Indians kept shooting. Then Allie's situation became so perilous that she saw only the Indians to the left, with their mustangs stretched out so as to intercept her before she got out into ...

— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey

... her way, Mavis set out to intercept Miss Toombs, who about this time would be on her way to business. They had not met since Mavis's marriage to Harold, Miss Toombs refusing to answer Mavis's many letters and always being out ...

— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... created a queen, who was dressed in royal robes, and had a crown set on her head. You need not doubt the silvered nymphs made also what haste they could to be queens. One of them was within a step of the coronation place, but there the golden knight lay ready to intercept her, so that she ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... they haue deuis'd a meane How he her chamber-window will ascend, And with a Corded-ladder fetch her downe: For which, the youthfull Louer now is gone, And this way comes he with it presently. Where (if it please you) you may intercept him. But (good my Lord) doe it so cunningly That my discouery be not aimed at: For, loue of you, not hate vnto my friend, Hath made ...

— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

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