intercept
verb🔊/ˌɪntəˈsept/
🔊/ˌɪntərˈsept/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they intercept | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈsept/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈsept/ |
| he / she / it intercepts | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈsepts/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈsepts/ |
| past simple intercepted | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈseptɪd/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈseptɪd/ |
| past participle intercepted | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈseptɪd/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈseptɪd/ |
| -ing form intercepting | 🔊/ˌɪntəˈseptɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌɪntərˈseptɪŋ/ |
- intercept somebody/something
to stop somebody/something that is going from one place to another from arriving 拦截；拦阻；截住 Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆，记者们把他拦截住了。 🔊🔊 The letter was intercepted. 信被截查了。 🔊🔊 Hurst intercepted a pass intended for Julio Jones. 赫斯特截取了发给朱利奥·琼斯的通行证。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIntercept is used with these nouns as the object:- call
- communication
- correspondence
- …
Word Originlate Middle English (in the senses ‘contain between limits’ and ‘halt (an effect)’): from Latin intercept- ‘caught between’, from the verb intercipere, from inter- ‘between’ + capere ‘take’.