intercept

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  1. transitive verb To stop, deflect, or interrupt the progress or intended course of: intercepted me with a message as I was leaving.
  2. transitive verb Sports To gain possession of (an opponent's pass), as in football or basketball.
  3. transitive verb Sports To gain possession of a pass made by (an opponent), especially in football.
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  • The rest of the pack spent the next day and night trying vainly to intercept, and on May 15, Dieterichs reported contact, but with another convoy. —  Grey Wolf, Grey Sea
  • At Portsmouth only one fighter squadron was near enough to intercept, and that was still climbing when fifty bombers were heavily fired on by the anti-aircraft guns. —  The Narrow Margin
  • The other troll had come around to intercept, and the dwarf spun about, but slipped on the flat stone and skidded down. —  The Woods Out Back
  • His speed was too fast to intercept, his motions too smooth to look fast. —  Analog March, 1971
  • Ulf leaps to intercept, arms extended in the manner of a crossing guard. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,December2004
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English intercepten, from Latin intercipere, intercept- : inter-, inter- + capere, to seize; see kap- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from French intercepter = Spanish Portuguese interceptar = Italian intercettare, from Latin intercipere, past participle interceptus, take between, intercept, from inter, between, + capere, take: see capable.
  2. from intercept, v.
 

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