interject
verb [transitive, intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they interject | |
he / she / it interjects | |
past simple interjected | |
past participle interjected | |
-ing form interjecting |
- + speech | interject (something)
to interrupt what somebody is saying with your opinion or a remark Topics Opinion and argumentc2打断(别人的讲话);插话 Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin interject- ‘interposed’, from the verb interjicere, from inter- ‘between’ + jacere ‘to throw’.