intercept
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they intercept | |
| he / she / it intercepts | |
| past simple intercepted | |
| past participle intercepted | |
| -ing form intercepting |
- 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. 赫斯特拦截了一个给胡里奥·琼斯的传球。
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’.